Volkswagen News
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Multiple carmakers and dealers are targeting VW TDI owners with incentives.
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Electric cars will require 10,000-plus job cuts at VW, says HR chief
Volkswagen's HR boss predicts significant job cuts related to electric cars.
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VW dealers use diesel buyback to offer deals even before TDI owners bring in cars
A Volkswagen dealer is already offering deals to TDI owners covered by the recently-approved settlement.
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2018 Volkswagen Atlas 7-seat SUV unveiled; plug-in hybrid coming, but when?
Volkswagen's 7-seat SUV will launch without a plug-in hybrid powertrain.
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Hyundai targets VW diesel buyback owners with special prices
Hyundai is offering special pricing to VW diesel owners covered by the 2.0-liter TDI settlement.
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Buybacks coming for Audi Q7 TDI diesel SUVs: German report
Audi will buy back 25,000 Q7 TDI SUVs, according to a German report.
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If Judge Charles Breyer signs the final settlement among Volkswagen, the EPA, and a California agency tomorrow, buyback offers will start to go out sometime next month to owners of almost half a million VW and Audi diesel cars. However, not every owner plans to participate in the settlement. The opinion piece below, from our reader Paul Hayes, explains why he has opted out of the class-action settlement. Hayes writes ... I’m one of what I’ve read is less than 1 percent of the Volkswagen and Audi TDI owners who has opted out. This settlement is not fair, just, or equitable. DON'T...
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Judge 'inclined' to sign VW diesel settlement, decision by Oct 25
The judge in charge of the Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI settlement said he was inclined to grant approval.
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Future VW electric-car concepts revealed in patent drawings
As it tries to recover from the "Dieselgate" scandal, Volkswagen has gotten more serious about electric cars. At the recent 2016 Paris Motor Show, it unveiled the I.D. compact electric-car concept, and promised a future production model based on it. Now, it appears the ID could be the first of...
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VW 'annoyed' it won't get order for electric vans it didn't make
Suppose you're one of the world's three largest automakers. You don't offer a type of vehicle that a relatively small but highly visible customer in your home market wants. Do you have the right to be annoyed if that customer designs those vehicles itself? DON'T MISS: USPS picks AM General to help...
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Could future VW Beetle return to rear (electric) powertrain?
As any experienced journalist knows, you hear lots of good stuff in the corridors and private conversations of any large industry event where media are present. That applies to auto shows too. Which is how we came to hear an intriguing rumor about the possible production direction of the...
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Virtually all VW diesel owners will take settlement terms for 2.0-liter TDI cars
The vast majority of Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI owners are expected to take the settlement terms.
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A lawsuit related to the Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid won't go to arbitration.
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Volkswagen fights demands for Dieselgate documents, Bosch joins too
Volkswagen and Bosch separately opposed requests for Dieselgate documents from European litigants.
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Volkswagen ID: more details of all-electric concept car at Paris Motor Show
This morning, Volkswagen held one of the first press conferences at the Paris Motor Show, unveiling the first of several electric cars from different makers. Its Volkswagen I.D. Concept is a preview of a high-volume battery-electric hatchback that will hit the market in 2020, priced "par with...
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VW shows renderings of ID electric-car concept for Paris Motor Show
Volkswagen presently sells just one all-electric car under its own brand in multiple markets, the e-Golf electric variant of its well-known five-door compact hatchback. But in the wake of continuing fallout from the Volkswagen diesel scandal, the company is wrenching itself toward a more electric...
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VW e-Crafter, Mercedes Urban e-truck concept: electric vans for Europe
The Volkswagen e-Crafter and Mercedes-Benz Urban e-truck concept debuted at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hannover, Germany.
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DC fast-charging in east, west coast corridors done, say VW, BMW
BMW and Volkswagen recently completed their East Coast and West Coast DC fast-charging corridors.
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Audi's sales boss claims Volkswagen is close to a 3.0-liter V-6 diesel settlement.
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Why VW diesel buyback pays owners to keep their cars for two more years
If all goes according to plan, more than 450,000 owners of Volkswagen and Audi sedans, wagons, and hatchbacks with 2.0-liter TDI diesel vehicles from the 2009 through 2015 model years will start to receive buyback offers from VW late this year. Many owners have already indicated that they plan to...
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First Volkswagen engineer pleads guilty to diesel emission fraud
A Volkswagen engineer pleaded guilty to a charge related to the diesel scandal Friday.
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Most VW diesel owners want the buyback, not a modified car
So far, the majority of Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI owners seem to want buybacks.
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VW promises dealers it will cut prices to boost U.S. sales after diesel debacle
Volkswagen will take measures to boost sales in the wake of the diesel-emissions scandal.
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VW diesel buyback: Here's what it's like to be an owner, so far
A Volkswagen TDI owner in Portland, Oregon, who's a good friend of this site is taking us along for the ride as he prepares to sell back his 2010 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen TDI. The car, which only has 43,000 miles on it, was purchased new from a Portland-area dealer and maintained very well. Our...
Aaron Cole