Volkswagen’s recall plan for its illegal vehicles has been rejected in California. California's chief air regulator turned down the proposed recall plan from Volkswagen to fix 3.0-liter diesel VW, Audi and Porsche models in the state equipped with devices designed to cheat emissions tests. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) said the plan to fix the vehicles, which range from model … [Read more...]
Swansea salesman is rising star of industry
A young car Sales Executive who joined Sinclair Volkswagen Swansea at just eighteen years old has scooped a top award from one of the motor industry’s top magazines. Nineteen year old Cameron Davies has been named a 2016 ‘Motor Trader Rising Star’ in the title’s UK search for the next generation of movers and shakers. The magazine launched the competition in 2015 to find those people already … [Read more...]
Volkswagen’s diesel-gate problems intensify
Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion euro suit against the automaker for what they see as breaches of its capital markets duty in the emissions scandal, said the law firm representing them. The lawsuit, for damages of 3.27 billion euros ($3.61 billion), was filed at a regional court in Brunswick in VW's home state of Lower Saxony on Monday and is being … [Read more...]
Spot checks on German cars
Germany wants to carry out unannounced emissions tests on all automakers to help restore confidence in the industry that was shattered by the Volkswagen cheating scandal. "There will be controls on vehicles in the style of doping tests [for athletes]," Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Bild newspaper. "Unannounced and every year." One way to carry out the random tests would be … [Read more...]
Volkswagen to lay off temporary staff
Volkswagen is considering a reduction in temporary workers as part of efforts to offset the cost of the emissions scandal, the automaker's works council said. VW said in a statement that the outlook for its sales and employment levels were unpredictable after the company reported on Friday lower September deliveriesfor its core autos division and the 12-brand group. It has also said it will … [Read more...]
Diesels, VW and the road ahead
Diesel still has a real future, despite the tirade of criticism, says economist Prof Garel Rhys, who in four decades studying the automotive industry, has seen in all before. The current furore over the fuel has raised a number of issues not only about the fuel itself but the way Governments have supported it, how carmakers have embraced it and how society has accepted it. The reality today … [Read more...]
Volkswagen issue intensifies
Germany's federal transport authority, the KBA, will force Volkswagen Group to recall 2.4 million vehicles in the country affected by the automaker's software that can cheat emissions tests. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt today said the KBA had ordered VW to start a mandatory recall of the cars under its various brands at the start of 2016. It is thought the compulsory recall … [Read more...]
VW recalled models hours before new law came in
Tough new UK consumer legislation has been successful on its first day. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 became law on Thursday and on Wednesday night Volkswagen UK announced it had withdrawn from sale about 4,000 pre-registered diesels now subject to the refit over their deceit diesel engines. About 11 million illegal VW Group cars are being re-examined, refitted or recalibrated around the … [Read more...]
VW to repay scrappage allowances
The UK Government may follow other European countries and insist Volkswagen repay scrappage allowances for old cars. In Spain, the government will receive money for Volkswagen models, mostly SEAT, that it paid out to buyers to encourage the move to cleaner cars. It offered subsidies of 1,000 euros (£738) for energy efficient cars and the VWs affected were no better than some of the cars … [Read more...]
VW emissions issue dates from 2007
Bosch has admitted supplying engine management software to Volkswagen which is at the heart of the diesel emissions probe into eleven million models around the world. But the German components maker said it told Volkswagen in 2007 that it would be illegal to use engine management software at the heart of the diesels emissions scandal in production cars and was intended for research and … [Read more...]