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The heads of the research and development teams for VW, Audi and Porsche have been temporarily kicked out of the company until the final details of the controversy have been cleaned up. But experts say it’s likely to cost much more as VW tries to comply with USA clean air...

Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow is suing Porsche for wrongful death, claiming that the carmaker marketing the Carrera GT the actor died in as road safe, but that the supercar lacked needed safety mechanisms.

Those events are what is causing massive turmoil with Volkswagen, the disclosure that 11 million diesel vehicles have software embedded in them that allow them to beat emissions certification tests.

Switzerland has banned the sale of Volkswagen cars caught up in the emissions scandal.

VW also faces a battle to restore the confidence of customers and motor dealers who have expressed frustration at a lack of information from the company about how they will be affected by the scandal. It will also have to fix software it has said is in some 11 million cars...

The Environmental Protection Agency said 482,000 of the German car-maker’s 2009-15 models in the U.S. were fitted with the defeat device to switch engines to a cleaner mode when they are undergoing official emissions testing.

A report in the latest edition of AutoBild magazine says that during real world testing an all-wheel drive BMW X3 equipped with a turbo-diesel engine had emissions that were 11 times over the European limit. “No specific details of the test have yet been provided and...

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.

The head of German luxury sports vehicle maker Porsche, Matthias Mueller, has been picked to succeed Martin Winterkorn as the chief executive of scandal-battered auto giant Volkswagen, the business daily Handelsblatt reported on September 24. Matthias Mueller, the 62-yead-old...

“As part of this work they will re-run laboratory tests where necessary and compare them against real world driving emissions“.

The Environmental Protection Agency told automakers on Friday that it will begin road tests of all new vehicle models and vehicles already on the road to examine emissions claims following the exposure of Volkswagen’s regulation-cheating scandal.

Standard & Poor’s warned it may cut Volkswagen‘s credit rating over the pollution cheating scandal, as fellow rating agency Fitch did on Wednesday. “Clearly, when you look at his profile, he’s had a very Volkswagen-centric career”, says...

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.

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

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...