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VW Announce The Iconic Beetle Will End Production in 2019
VW Announce The Iconic Beetle Will End Production in 2019 The VW Beetle has a bit of a unique and certainly long history. Originally designed under the request of a certain German chancellor in the 1930’s, the car did not officially begin production until after the war. Since then, 70…
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Volkswagen Might Buy Back Emissions Cheating Vehicles
Earlier this week, Volkswagen, who for months have been caught in the midst of their emissions cheating scandal, laid out their plans for dealing with the vehicles that were part of the cheating. The plan seems dramatic too, with it including a proposal to buy back all 500,000 of their…
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Volkswagen’s US Chief “Stepping Down”
Volkswagen (VW) is a well-known car manufacturer, or more recently due to the revelation that their cars had a system in place to produce “lower emissions” if it was tested at the time. The latest in a string of events for the company, the head of the United States branch…
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Elon Musk Wants VW Forced to Produce Zero-Emission Vehicles
Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk – together with a group of 44 businesses and environmentalists – thinks that the punishment for Volkswagen’s lies regarding the exhaust emissions of its diesel cars should be to force the manufacturer to produce zero-emission vehicles, in lieu of fines and “impractical” recalls. In an…
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Video From Volkswagen Shows Emissions Cheating Fix
Today, a video from Volkswagen was released on Youtube, outlining their planned fixes their EA 189 1.6 and 2 litre diesel engines, which have been at the center of their recent emissions scandal. There are two parts to the solution outlined in their video: The first is an update to…
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US Compensation for VW Drivers to Increase by 50%
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you should know about the latest emissions scandal regarding the Diesel Volkswagen (VW) engined cars; our previous coverage can be found here and here. This has been met with huge uproar and the VW Group started to offer…
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Even More Cars Pulled Amidst VW Emissions Scandal
Even a month after the news first broke, the extent of the emissions scandal surrounding a number of Volkswagen vehicles seems only to grow, with the EPA filing a violation of the Clean Air Act regarding Volkswagen’s 3-litre diesel engine. In response to this claim, a number of Volkswagen, Porsche…
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EPA Finds Another Emissions Scam in Volkswagen Cars
Following revelations the Volkswagen was using software to fake its vehicle’s emission reading – a scam overseen by at least 30 high-ranking VW executives – the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has discovered a second emission-cheating program in the German car manufacturer’s diesel vehicles. The software, designed to allow VW…
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At Least 30 Managers Behind VW Emissions Scam
The Volkswagen emission saga continues, as German news company Spiegel reports that at least 30 VW managers are suspected to be involved with the VW emissions scandal, as a result of the ongoing internal investigation. Up until now, VW has proclaimed that only a small group of executives had overseen the installation…
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Volkswagon Eyes on The Road Ad Campaign Sends A Chilling Lesson to Cinema Goers
We all know of the short period in a cinema before a film starts where a number of adverts are displayed, but none of them has sent that much of a chilling message to its watchers compared to a new Volkswagen ad titled ‘Eyes On The Road’. Shown in the…
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