In late February, a U.S. gave Volkswagen an ultimatum: By March 24th, they would need to give a status update as to a fix for the illegal diesel vehicles. That date has since passed. What happened?
Last year at the New York Auto Show, Volkswagen showed a prototype of a rugged Golf Sportswagen to gauge interest. Called the Alltrack, this model would give the Subaru XV Crosstrek some competition. It seems there was a lot of interest as Volkswagen has announced the Golf Alltrack would be coming to the U.S. for the 2017 model year.
This week marks the six-month anniversary of the EPA official announcement that Volkswagen used illegal software on diesel models to cheat emission tests. Not much has happened in trying to find a solution or suitable punishment. But it appears something is happening on one of those fronts.
Aside from Volkswagen, the hardest group hit by the diesel emission scandal are Volkswagen's dealers. With the departure of Volkswagen of America's CEO and President this week, something has snapped in dealers and they want answers.
The news isn't getting better for Volkswagen in terms of the diesel emission scandal. In fact, CEO Matthias Mueller said it will keep the company busy 'for a long time.'
It has been over six months since the EPA announced that Volkswagen was using illegal software on their 2.0L TDI engine to cheat emission tests. The bad news is that it could be months before a deal between Volkswagen and U.S regulators can be reached.
Volkswagen wanted to make headlines at the Geneva Auto Show for the vehicles they were showing. But they also made the headlines for something quite funny and embarrassing.
A fire has been lit under Volkswagen. A federal judge has given the German automaker a late March deadline to provide an update on a fix for 600,000 diesel vehicles that used illegal software to emit more emissions than are legally allowed.
The underlying question that seems to be asked with every story dealing with the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal is, could it get any worse? Over the weekend, it did.
It has been a couple months since Volkswagen announced that Kenneth Feinberg was being brought in to develop a compensation program for owners affected by the diesel emission scandal in the U.S. How is he faring?
The person who will be leading Volkswagen's North American Operations has a difficult task ahead of them. They will be charged with strengthen the brand in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Who is the lucky person to take this position?
If you were to ask a Volkswagen executive if there was a worst week since the diesel emission scandal broke out in September, most likely they would point to last week.
Over the past six days, the writers here at TorqueNews have offered up their favorite vehicles from 2015 including the BMW M4, the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, the VW Golf GTI, the Acura RLX Sport Hybrid, the Alfa Romeo 4C and the new Mazda Miata.
