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Trump fumes over emissions deal between automakers and California
The president decried a deal between the most populous U.S. state and four major automakers.
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Protestor Jumps Into Volkswagen Auto Show Presentation With ‘Cheat Box’
VW's Geneva Motor Show event took a hard turn into the weird when a fake mechanic tried to put a “cheat box” on a new model.
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Volkswagen Goes Whimsical With T-Cross Breeze SUV
For a company still grappling with a scandal over diesel emissions, Volkswagen has chosen a strangely happy concept car to reveal at the Geneva Motor Show.
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U.S. judge turns up heat on VW with March emissions fix deadline
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said he wants a definitive answer on the status of a fix by March 24. Noting that VW had admitted in September that its vehicles on U.S. roads were using software to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution, Breyer said time was running out. "Six months is long enough" to determine if this is a fixable problem, Breyer said.
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Volkswagen to offer generous compensation for U.S. customers: fund head
Volkswagen will offer generous compensation packages to the roughly 600,000 U.S. owners of diesel vehicles whose emissions are over the legal limit, the head of its claims fund told a German paper. The German car maker has still not decided whether vehicle owners will be offered cash, car buy-backs, repairs or replacement cars, Kenneth Feinberg told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Feinberg previously headed the compensation funds for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, BP's Deepwater Horiz
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VW Bites Back: Doubts Diesel Whistleblower, Says Defeat Software Legal In Europe
Another week brings more new stories on the diesel-emission cheating scandal that threatens to dig Volkswagen deeper into a ditch of its own making. Following reports in German newspapers late last week suggesting that the "defeat device" software was an "open secret" in VW's engine group, the company bit back yesterday.
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VW probe finds manipulation was open secret in department: newspaper
Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) development of software to cheat diesel-emissions tests was an open secret in the company department striving to make its engines meet environmental standards, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Friday, citing results from VW's internal investigation. A culture of collective secrecy prevailed within the department, where the installation of the defeat software that would cause the carmaker's biggest ever corporate crisis was openly discussed as long ago as
