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Matthias Mueller has officially been named the new CEO of the Volkswagen Group effective immediately the German automaker announced on Friday.

In choosing Porsche chief Matthias Mueller as its new CEO, Volkswagen Group’s board used the occasion Friday to announce a complete management shake up in the wake of its emissions testing rigging scandal.

WASHINGTON, September 29 (Xinhua) – US lawmakers on Tuesday requested documents from Volkswagen and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding the company’s illegal software used to circumvent emissions test for certain models of diesel engine passenger vehicles.

Of Volkswagen’s own cars, more than half a million are affected, while 393,450 Audi cars have software installed, as well as 76,773 SEATs and 131,569 Škoda vehicles.

VW said the diesel vehicles include 508,276 Volkswagen cars, 393,450 Audis, 76,773 Seats, 131,569 Škodas and 79,838 Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

Volkswagen AG’s new chief executive, Matthias Mueller, on Monday, called upon the vehicle maker’s executives to help change the corporate culture, as Volkswagen addresses the biggest challenge in its 78-year-old history following revelations of its large-scale...

No fewer than 129,000 Volkswagen vehicles registered in Switzerland were affected by the emissions testing scandal, the company’s Swiss distributor, AMAG said.

The software at the center of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal in the US was built into the automaker’s cars in Europe as well, Germany said Thursday, though it isn’t yet clear if it helped cheat tests as it did in the U.S. Chris Grundler, director of the Office...

Volkswagen’s board on Friday named Matthias Mueller, the head of the group’s Porsche unit, to be the new CEO and to lead the world’s top-selling automaker past a growing emissions-rigging scandal.

Volkswagen’s supervisory board will pick the head of sports-car maker Porsche as its next chief executive to succeed Martin Winterkorn who resigned on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Ulrich Hackenberg, chief technology officer of VW’s Audi unit, and Wolfgang Hatz, board member for research and development at VW’s Porsche AG, will lose their jobs over the scandal, two people familiar with the situation said Thursday. At the same time, Matthias...