UK Court Refuses Permission to Appeal in Diesel Emissions Lawsuits Against Carmakers October 9, 2026 London’s High Court on Thursday refused claimants permission to appeal against its July decision which broadly found in favor of...
Volkswagen Sets Aside £725 Million for UK Car Finance Payout October 7, 2026 By Jamie Nimmo and Upmanyu Trivedi The UK financing arm of Volkswagen AG has made a £725 million ($960 million) provision to cover the costs of...
Volkswagen Recalls 4 Million Cars, Handelsblatt Reports October 5, 2026 German auto group Volkswagen will recall around 4 million vehicles across four brands in the biggest such action since the...
Ex-VW Engineers Plead Not Guilty to US Insider Trading Charges August 5, 2026 By Bob Van Voris Two former Volkswagen AG engineers denied charges they made a combined $300,000 trading on secret information about the German carmaker’s...
Volkswagen’s Brazil Unit Recalls Five Models for Instrument Panel Software Fix May 6, 2026 Volkswagen’s Brazilian unit announced on Monday [May 4] a recall of five models manufactured up to five years ago for...
Recent Auto Recalls From Hyundai, GM, Ford, VW Total Over 1 Million Vehicles April 10, 2026 Hyundai to Recall About 294,000 Vehicles Over Seat Belt Anchor Defect Hyundai Motor America is recalling 294,128 vehicles in the...
Volkswagen, Porsche Recall Over 500,000 Vehicles With Rearview Camera Glitch January 7, 2026 Problems with the rearview mirror have forced Porsche and now parent company Volkswagen to recall over half a million vehicles...
Carmakers Accused in Huge UK Lawsuits of Cheating Diesel Emissions Tests October 14, 2025 By Sam Tobin Some of the world’s biggest carmakers manipulated diesel emissions tests because they “would rather cheat than comply with the law,”...
Volkswagen Loses Top Court Case Over Diesel Deal With Ex-CEO September 30, 2025 By Karin Matussek Volkswagen AG lost an appeals case in Germany’s highest civil court over the shareholders’ approval of a settlement with former...
Major Automakers Want Congress to Bar California 2035 Electric Vehicle Plan April 28, 2025 By David Shepardson Major automakers want Congress to bar California’s landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has...