Volkswagen to start firings over emissions scandal
Volkswagen will start firing people responsible for rigging U.S. emissions tests and shake up management on Friday, two sources familiar with the plans said, as the German carmaker tries to get to grips with the biggest scandal in its 78-year history.
Sep 24, 2015, 16:26 PM IST
Volkswagen to announce new CEO Friday: Board
German auto giant Volkswagen will announce its new chief executive on Friday, its supervisory board said in a statement after Martin Winterkorn resigned over the widening car pollution cheating scandal.
Sep 23, 2015, 22:56 PM IST
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigns over biggest scandal in 78-year history
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned on Wednesday, taking responsibility for the German carmaker`s rigging of U.S. emissions tests in the biggest scandal in its 78-year history.
Sep 23, 2015, 21:56 PM IST
Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn faces grilling by board over diesel scandal
Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn faces a reckoning with his board on Wednesday, summoned to explain the falsification of U.S. emissions tests in the biggest scandal in the 78-year history of the world`s largest carmaker.
Sep 23, 2015, 18:39 PM IST
Volkswagen says 11 million cars hit by scandal, probes multiply
Volkswagen AG said a scandal over falsified US vehicle emission tests could affect 11 million of its cars worldwide as investigations of its diesel models multiplied, heaping fresh pressure on CEO Martin Winterkorn.
Sep 23, 2015, 09:42 AM IST
Volkswagen scandal: CEO Martin Winterkorn offers `deepest apologies`
Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn on Tuesday offered his "deepest apologies" for the pollution-cheating scandal engulfing the auto giant and threatening to tarnish Germany`s industrial reputation.
Sep 22, 2015, 23:13 PM IST
Volkswagen faces US criminal probe on cheating scandal: Source
The United States has opened a criminal investigation into Volkswagen, which has admitted almost 500,000 of its cars in the US have a clean-air cheating device, a source close to the probe told AFP Tuesday.
Sep 22, 2015, 21:54 PM IST
CEO Martin Winterkorn not leaving: Volkswagen
"Nonsense," a spokesman at the company`s headquarters in Wolfsburg said on Tuesday when asked whether the report by German Tagesspiegel was true.
Sep 22, 2015, 18:31 PM IST
Volkswagen to dismiss CEO Martin Winterkorn over scandal: Paper
Volkswagen will dismiss Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, a German newspaper said on Tuesday, after the carmaker admitted to cheating US vehicles emissions tests and said 11 million of its cars could be affected worldwide.
Sep 22, 2015, 18:20 PM IST
Volkswagen scandal: We 'screwed up', says US chief Michael Horn
The chief executive of Volkswagen America, Michael Horn, used unusually candid language to apologize and admit wrongdoing after the German car giant was caught cheating in US pollution measuring tests.
Sep 22, 2015, 17:32 PM IST
Volkswagen says 11 million cars have pollution cheating device
German auto giant Volkswagen revealed Tuesday that 11 million diesel cars worldwide are equipped with devices that can cheat pollution tests, a dramatic expansion of a scandal that immediately sent its shares plummeting by another 20 percent.
Sep 22, 2015, 17:26 PM IST
