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Chris Sumner, at robotics company FANUC United Kingdom, commented: ‘After the slowdown of United Kingdom vehicle production output in July, we’ve witnessed a resurgence in August.

Volkswagen has been reeling since the US Environmental Protection Agency revealed last Friday that the group had rigged its diesel cars to pass emissions tests, potentially laying itself open to criminal charges and substantial fines.

Mueller, the head of VW’s Porsche sports-car division, had been widely expected to be Winterkorn’s replacement.

When the scandal broke out, Martin Wintercorn, the CEO of Volkswagen did what anyone in his position would have done in similar circumstances: saying sorry, at first and then buried the head in the sand while hoping it would slowly die down.

Davis was jailed for five days when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her county and didn’t comply with a federal judge’s order to do so.

Volkswagen’s supervisory board appointed Mueller, a longtime company insider, at a daylong meeting on Friday. The crisis wiped about €20 billion off VW’s market value this week, and the company estimates irregularities on diesel-emission readings extend to 11 million...

The statement came as investors awaited a decision from VW’s board after the market close on who will replace Martin Winterkorn as chief executive, amid reports that Porsche’s CEO Matthias Mueller is the front-runner.

According to the EPA website: “The November alleges that four-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009-2015 include software that circumvents EPA emissions standards for certain air pollutants”.

“To see all the little characteristics that he has gained in the short time already has been wonderful”.

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Michael Horn, however, will remain chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America.

“We don’t yet have figures for how many of these 11 million cars that are apparently affected are in Europe”, Mr Dobrindt said.

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He had been tipped to replace Winterkorn during the latter’s bitter feud with his one-time mentor and former supervisory board chief Ferdinand Piech earlier this year.

Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigned last night after it emerged on Friday that the German vehicle manufacturer had installed “defeat devices” in its diesel models, to mislead officials over the levels of nitrous oxides emitted. The company’s...