Latest Volkswagen Headlines
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Russian Court Orders Volkswagen to Pay $193M in Damages to Russian Carmaker
Jul 9 2024 // A Russian court has ordered Volkswagen to pay 16.9 billion roubles ($193 million) in damages to Russian carmaker GAZ Group, which had sued the German automaker over lost profits after Volkswagen exited the Russian...
Volkswagen Recalling 307,000 Vehicles Over Air Bag Sensor Wiring
Jun 27 2024 // Volkswagen said on Wednesday it was recalling over 307,000 vehicles in North America due to a potential wiring fault that may deactivate front passenger air bags when the seat is occupied. The recall covers 271,000...
Volkswagen Reaches $54 Million ‘Dieselgate’ Settlement With Italian Owners
May 17 2024 // Volkswagen and a group representing car owners in Italy have reached an agreement worth more than 50 million euros ($54 million) to end a legal battle over the “dieselgate” emissions scandal, they said on...
TN VW Employees Vote Overwhelmingly to Join United Auto Workers Union
Apr 22 2024 // CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to...
Volkswagen Faces Pair of Lawsuits Over Claim Porsche EV Battery Sparked Ship Fire
Mar 5 2024 // Volkswagen AG faces a pair of lawsuits in Germany over claims it was the battery in a Porsche electric vehicle that triggered the 2022 fire onboard a massive cargo ship that eventually sank with thousands of cars on...
Former VW Chief Tells Court He Didn’t Deceive Investors Over Dieselgate
Feb 14 2024 // Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn told a German court on Wednesday he did not deceive investors over the carmaker’s rigging of diesel engine emissions tests. It was the first time Winterkorn has...
NHTSA Opens Probe Into 447,000 VW, Audi Vehicles
Dec 14 2023 // A U.S. auto safety regulator said on Thursday it is opening an investigation into 447,000 Volkswagen Golf and Audi A3 and cars over fuel leak reports and whether a 2016 recall adequately addressed the issue. The National...
Former VW Executives Ordered to Testify in Investor Lawsuit
Jul 11 2023 // A German court will call former Volkswagen AG executives as witnesses in a €9 billion ($9.8 billion) investor lawsuit over the diesel emissions scandal to find out what the top brass knew about the the so-called defeat...
Ex-Audi Boss Becomes 1st VW Board Member Sentenced for Fraud in Diesel Scandal
Jun 27 2023 // Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler was handed a suspended sentence of one year and nine months by a Munich court on Tuesday for fraud in the 2015 diesel scandal, becoming the first former Volkswagen board member to receive...
Russian Carmaker GAZ Files Third Lawsuit Against Volkswagen
May 8 2023 // Russian carmaker GAZ has filed a lawsuit worth 15.6 billion roubles ($200.5 million) against Volkswagen, court records show, adding to two others filed earlier this year. The lawsuit, details of which have not been...
TN Volkswagen Plant Shut Down After Three Workers Hit by Vehicle Outside
May 1 2023 // Management shut down production Saturday at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee after three workers were struck by a vehicle on a walkway just outside the plant, authorities said. One person was killed, a second was critically...
Russia’s GAZ Group Files $348M Suit Against Volkswagen
Apr 10 2023 // The Gorky Automobile Plant, part of Russia’s GAZ Group which was contracted to assemble cars for Volkswagen, has filed a lawsuit to recover 28.4 billion roubles ($348 million) from the German automaker, court records...
Volkswagen Halts Sale of Some ID.4 EVs Because Doors Might Open While in Motion
Apr 6 2023 // Volkswagen AG has ordered dealers in the U.S. and Canada to stop selling its ID.4 electric SUV because its doors might open while in motion, and the German carmaker doesn’t yet have a fix for the problem. Nearly...
143,000 VW SUV Owners Warned to Keep Front Passenger Seats Empty
Apr 6 2023 // Owners of 143,000 recalled Volkswagen Atlas vehicles should not let people sit in front passenger seats until the occupant-detection systems in these vehicles have been fixed, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety...
Russian Court Freezes Volkswagen Assets in Russia
Mar 21 2023 // A Russian court on Monday froze all Volkswagen assets in Russia, in the latest obstacle to the German carmaker’s year-long efforts to wind down its Russian operations. Volkswagen, along with other foreign carmakers,...
VW Faces Possible Recalls After Environmental NGO Wins Emissions Software Lawsuit
Feb 21 2023 // A German court on Monday ruled in favor of an environmental NGO’s lawsuit against the federal motor authority for releasing cars with software on exhaust gas recirculation it argues is illegal, in a judgment which...
German Court Dismisses Greenpeace-Led Climate Case Against VW; Plaintiffs to Appeal
Feb 15 2023 // A regional court in Germany has dismissed a case led by Greenpeace against Volkswagen calling on the carmaker to tighten its carbon emissions targets, the company and the climate group said in separate statements on...
California Settles with Firm in Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
Nov 9 2022 // California settled a lawsuit against a German company stemming from the emissions scandal that tarred Volkswagen in 2015 and Fiat Chrysler two years later. German auto supplier Bosch will pay $25 million to settle...
Volkswagen Sued for Not Disclosing Alleged Private Climate Lobbying Activities
Oct 21 2022 // Volkswagen AG was sued by institutional investors in Germany concerned that despite making public commitments to fighting climate change, the carmaker may be privately lobbying against its environmental ambitions. A group...
VW Sees EU Top Court Ruling Against Its Emissions Software as Confirmation
Jul 14 2022 // Volkswagen’s software that altered car emissions constituted an illegal defeat device in certain driving conditions, the EU’s top court ruled on Thursday, while the automaker said the ruling confirmed its...
