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2.1 mn cars worldwide with emission-cheating software: VW Audi

Volkswagen's top-of-the-range automaker Audi said on Monday that 2.1 million of its diesel cars worldwide are fitted with the sophisticated software enabling them to cheat emission tests.

Sep 28, 2015, 17:29 PM IST

Volkswagen staff, supplier warned of emissions test cheating years ago: Reports

Volkswagen`s own staff and one of its suppliers warned years ago about software designed to thwart emissions tests, two German newspapers reported on Sunday, as the automaker tries to uncover how long its executives knew about the cheating.

Sep 27, 2015, 19:28 PM IST

VW ignored warnings on 'illegal' cheat software: Reports

Volkswagen ignored warnings from staff and a supplier years ago that the emission test rigging software that sparked the company`s worst ever corporate scandal was illegal, news reports said Sunday.

Sep 27, 2015, 17:09 PM IST

New Volkswagen boss tries to drag carmarker out of scandal

Volkswagen's new boss began trying to pull the embattled carmaker out of the wreckage of a pollution test rigging scandal on Saturday as the United States and Switzerland banned the sale of the group's new diesel cars.

Sep 26, 2015, 18:38 PM IST

VW scandal exposes cozy ties between industry and Berlin

Angela Merkel learned early in her political career that taking on the German car industry carries risks.

Sep 26, 2015, 17:09 PM IST

BMW denies manipulating or rigging diesel emission tests

German top-of-the-range carmaker BMW on Thursday denied suggestions in a newspaper report that it might have cheated in pollution tests on its diesel cars, as rival group VW has admitted to doing. 

Sep 24, 2015, 19:03 PM IST

European stocks sink on China downgrade, VW scandal

European stock markets tumbled Tuesday with carmakers and miners in freefall on the worsening Volkswagen scandal and a bleak outlook for China`s economy, dealers said.

Sep 22, 2015, 21:59 PM IST

Volkswagen says to halt sales of VW, Audi diesel cars in US

The models concerned accounted for 23 percent of VW brand cars sold in the United States in August. Between January and August, the group sold nearly 240,000 cars in the US. 

Sep 21, 2015, 18:57 PM IST

Volkswagen shares end day 17.14% lower on false emission data scam

Shares in German auto giant Volkswagen ended the day 17.14 percent lower on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Monday after it emerged that nearly half a million of its diesel cars in the United States had been fitted with software that falsified emissions data.

Sep 21, 2015, 16:39 PM IST

VW orders probe into violation of US emission rules

German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) said it had ordered an external investigation of the violation of US emission rules.

Sep 21, 2015, 12:23 PM IST