Volkswagen AG supplier IAV GmbH has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $35 million fine for its role in the German auto giant's emissions-cheating scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
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A group of Kia and Hyundai owners have filed a class-action lawsuit against the automakers over an alleged defect that could, and has, caused noncollision fires.
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers, the obvious winners from the proposal, balked.
The cars riddled with defects big and small were never certified for road use.
Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker's emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it public in September 2015.
Gary Weinreich was terrified when the steering on his 2005 Toyota 4Runner failed on a busy two-lane highway in South Carolina in May.
Volkswagen's strategy chief said on Tuesday the German carmaker's core brand will develop its final generation of vehicles using combustion engine technology in 2026.
Several European countries have either ordered vehicle recalls by carmakers over diesel emissions cheating or plan to do so, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported without citing sources.
Faced with complaints that its cars are randomly igniting, Hyundai says regulators should focus on all auto brands
The U.S. government is investigating more than 100 complaints of poor brake performance on 2.7 million General Motors big pickups and SUVs.
While Volkswagen's diesel emission fiasco has died down in the United States, costing the automaker billions before going achieving dormancy, the legal fires burn brightly in Europe.
Volkswagen and an independent monitoring team still have "a lot of work to do" before the company's compliance procedures can be certified after a $27 billion global emissions cheating scandal, Larry Thompson, an independent compliance auditor, said on Thursday.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it is investigating whether General Motors Co (GM.N), the largest U.S. automaker, should recall an additional 1.7 million sport utility vehicles due to windshield wiper failures.
Autonomous vehicle developers are pursuing different strategies and technologies — and making different claims, in different ways, about their systems.
Porsche SE, the holding controlling Volkswagen, violated shareholder disclosure laws and must pay €47 million to investors for not informing them soon enough about the emissions fraud.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday said it had ordered Transdev North America to immediately stop transporting school children in Florida in a driverless shuttle, as the testing could be putting them at "inappropriate" risk.
German prosecutors fined Audi, a Volkswagen subsidiary, €800 million ($926 million) over the automaker's ongoing diesel emissions scandal.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) claimed its Model 3 electric car has the lowest risk of occupant injury of any vehicle in U.S. government tests, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday said the claim goes beyond the scope of its analysis.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer, overseeing the landmark Volkswagen Dieselgate lawsuits, issued an order allowing the RICO and state law claims of consumers who sold their affected vehicles prior to the disclosure of the fraud to continue, according to Hagens Berman.
Volkswagen has terminated the contract of Rupert Stadler, the suspended chief executive of its premium brand Audi, amid an ongoing emissions probe.
