It has happened agin with VW caught cheating, this time for price-fixing with other truck makers through its Scania truck brand. This is on the heels of being ordered to pay $1 billion, along with BMW and Mercedes, for colluding on emissions components last August, and also paying out over $9 billion from Dieselgate.
The Ora Punk Cat was an obvious rip-off of the Volkswagen Beetle. Now Ora claims the new Ballet Cat is a completely different model from its Punk Cat, which is a completely different model from the VW Beetle. Sort of.
Volkswagen's history of vans in the US has been spotty over the years. Now it can bring over its new 2022 T7 Multivan to fill a niche mostly abandoned by most other manufacturers.
The pickup truck partnership between Ford and VW is bearing fruit with the new VW Amarok. Since both the Ford Ranger and Amarok will be built in the U.S., will America get the Amarok?
In a surprise development the Volkswagen Group has received a $9.2 billion offer to buy Lamborghini from the Zurich investment group Quantum. Now the question is: will VW sell? They have previously said Lamborghini is not for sale.
Volkswagen thought it would be funny to send out press releases saying it was changing its name to "Voltswagen." It's all fun and games until the joke backfired and a class-action lawsuit was filed alleging false and misleading statements messing with the stock prices.
Back in 2019, we told you about Ford and Volkswagen hooking up to share midsize truck development. This would be for the next-generation Ford Ranger. We expected that this meant VW wouldn’t be selling what it shared with Ford in the US. But now comes word that VW is developing its part of the pickup …
Not again? Volkswagen keeps spinning its wheels every couple of years with another new business strategy. Here’s the latest one laid out this week by Ralf Brandstatter, VW passenger car head. The new strategy is called “Accelerate.” It is a mix of its current vehicles but with a ton of ID-branded EVs. Then, just like …