Latest Volkswagen Headlines

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Florida Resident Files $5M Suit Against Volkswagen

Oct 8 2015 // A Fort Myers law firm has filed suit against Volkswagen in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida and seeks more than $5 million in damages, accusing the carmaker of false advertising and other...

Now, Volkswagen’s Injury Reporting Being Questioned

Oct 8 2015 // Volkswagen AG reported death and injury claims at the lowest rate of any major automaker in the U.S. over the last decade.The numbers are so good that some industry experts wonder if they add up. The average reporting rate...

West Virginia Files Suit Against Volkswagen Over Clean Diesel Claims

Oct 7 2015 // West Virginia may be the first U.S. state to sue Volkswagen AG for deceiving car buyers after the Environmental Protection Agency said last month that the company had installed software to hide that its diesel engines...

Emission Scandal Puts VW Test Site in California Under Scrutiny

Oct 6 2015 // When Volkswagen opened its gleaming pollution testing center near the California coast, a top executive from the German automaker helped snip the blue ribbon and joined a tour of a lab so advanced that VW would brag the...

Montana Governor’s Chief of Staff among Plaintiffs Suing Volkswagen

Oct 5 2015 // Gov. Steve Bullock’s chief of staff is among the plaintiffs in a Montana lawsuit against Volkswagen over the automaker’s emissions-rigging scandal.Tracy Stone-Manning, her husband Richard Manning and Missoula...

VW Reports Business-as-Usual at Tennessee Plant Despite Scandal

Oct 2 2015 // Inside Volkswagen’s only U.S. assembly plant there’s little hint of the diesel emissions cheating scandal embroiling the German automaker around the world. Sparks fly off robotic welding arms, new versions of...

Texas County Sues Automaker for $100M Over Doctored Diesels

Sep 30 2015 // The Texas county that includes Houston sued Volkswagen Group of America Inc. for $100 million, claiming the carmaker’s cheating on emission controls worsened pollution in the area. It’s believed to the the...

Volkswagen to Recall 11 Million Vehicles for Diesel Fix

Sep 29 2015 // Volkswagen announced plans on Tuesday to refit up to 11 million vehicles and overhaul its namesake brand to try to move on from the scandal over its cheating on diesel emissions tests.New Chief Executive Matthias Mueller...

U.S. Investors Sue Volkswagen Over Diesel Emissions Scandal

Sep 28 2015 // Volkswagen AG was accused in a lawsuit of scheming to defraud U.S. investors who paid artificially inflated prices for the company’s foreign shares while it cheated on vehicle emissions tests.In what may be the first...

Car Dealers Sue Volkswagen Over Losses Tied to Diesel Cheating

Sep 25 2015 // Independent car dealerships sued Volkswagen AG in California on Thursday over losses they say they will incur following revelations that the company fitted some diesel models with software to cheat on U.S. vehicle...

How Regulators Caught Volkswagen’s Diesel Deception

Sep 25 2015 // The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green...

Trying to Put a Price Tag on Volkswagen’s Emission-Fraud Scandal

Sep 22 2015 // An $18 billion liability figure attached itself last Friday to Volkswagen’s diesel disaster. This morning comes news that the German car maker has set aside $7.3 billion (€6.5 billion) to cover a scandal spreading...

Allianz Teams with Volkswagen, Bayer and BASF in Anti-Hacking Venture

Sep 18 2015 // The German car giant that gave the world the Beetle may soon help you fend off cyber criminals.Volkswagen AG teamed with insurer Allianz SE, medical company Bayer AG and chemicals producer BASF SE to sell...

Luxury Car Hacking Risk Widespread; Evidence Suppressed: Researchers

Aug 14 2015 // Thousands of cars from a host of manufacturers have spent years at risk of electronic car- hacking, according to expert research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts.“Keyless”...

Health, Wealth, Technology Drive Graying of America’s Roadways

Aug 13 2015 // Richard Emmons, 83, likes to spend his weekends cruising around in a 1995 Jaguar convertible with a big 12-cylinder engine. His weekday drive is either a 2009 Volkswagen Eos or the $82,000 Audi A8 sedan he bought in...

Mismatched Bumpers on Cars, SUVs Drive Up Repair Bills

Dec 3 2010 // Mismatched bumpers on cars and SUVs produce far more costly damage in low speed collisions than bumpers that do line up, new car safety research shows.Bumpers on cars are designed to match up with each other in collisions,...

Allstate to Auction Recovered 1965 Volkswagen Van

Dec 16 2009 // Allstate announced today that it will sell a recovered 1965 Volkswagen bus at auction and donate the proceeds to Lydia Place, a nonprofit organization in Washington state serving homeless women and children impacted by...

Insurance Top Picks for Safety: Ford, Subaru, Volkswagen

Nov 19 2009 // Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen lead the insurance industry’s annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms.The...

Jury Clears Volkswagen in Car Crash That Paralyzed Vermont Man

Feb 12 2009 // A jury says Volkswagen isn’t to blame for the injuries suffered by a Vermont man in a 2002 wreck that paralyzed him. The suit stemmed from a Christmas Eve accident in Hanover, New Hampshire, in which a 1999 Jetta...

Vermont Quadriplegic Sues Volkswagen

Jan 20 2009 // A Vermont man paralyzed in a 2002 accident is suing Volkswagen AG, saying the Jetta he was riding in wasn’t “crash worthy.”Twenty-nine-year-old Owen Milne’s product liability suit goes to trial...