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DiCaprio Is Making a Volkswagen Scandal Movie

He's teamed up with Paramount to produce

(Newser) - Leonardo DiCaprio is making a Volkswagen movie—and it's not a relaunch of the Herbie franchise. Rather, his production company, Appian Way, has signed up to produce a movie on the Volkswagen emissions-cheating scandal , reports Variety . He will be working with Paramount, which has bought the rights to an...

VW Boss Blames 'a Couple of Software Engineers'

Michael Horn says 3 VW employees have been suspended

(Newser) - Volkswagen's US chief started testimony at a congressional hearing on Thursday by offering "a sincere apology for VW's use of a program that served to defeat the emissions regime," Michael Horn said, per NPR , before blaming its use on "a couple of software engineers."...

VW's Dieselgate Now Spreads to Audi

Company's luxury brand says 2.1M of its cars also had emissions cheat

(Newser) - The dust was just starting to settle on Volkswagen's emissions-cheating software on its US diesel vehicles, but new revelations show the hubbub spreading to Audi. The company's luxury brand reported Monday that 2.1 million of its vehicles—including 13,000 in the US—had the same cheat...

A Very Wrong Symbol: Apologies of the Week

Including a wrenching one from a first responder

(Newser) - An inappropriate story illustration and a first responder's lament from the heart were among the apologies to make headlines this week:
  • The TV news: "Regrettably, we failed to recognize that the artwork we chose to accompany the story contained an offensive symbol. ... We are extremely embarrassed and we
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EPA Changing Emissions Tests So It Can't Be Duped Again

Volkswagen scandal spurs change

(Newser) - The US Environmental Protection Agency said today that it will launch sweeping changes to the way it tests for diesel emissions after getting duped by clandestine software in Volkswagen cars for seven years. In a letter to car manufacturers, the EPA said it will add on-road testing to its regimen,...

WV University Researchers Brought VW 'to Its Knees'

5-person team found too-high emission levels in Passat, Jetta

(Newser) - A member of a five-person research team at West Virginia University says his initial hope, after winning a grant to fund a $50,000 study comparing US and European diesel cars, was that a few people would read the resulting research papers. Instead, the team's research, specifically on two...

Volkswagen CEO Resigns
 Volkswagen CEO Resigns 
Sep 23, 2015 10:19 AM CDT

Volkswagen CEO Resigns

Martin Winterkorn can't survive the growing scandal

(Newser) - Volkswagen's CEO is out as the company reels from its emissions-cheating scandal. Martin Winterkorn announced the decision today, reports CNBC , and no successor has been named yet. The move comes as class-action lawsuits have begun popping up around the country by angry buyers of the company's diesel vehicles,...

How VW Tricked the EPA
 How VW Tricked the EPA 
Sep 22, 2015 6:19 PM CDT

How VW Tricked the EPA

It was apparently pretty simple

(Newser) - By now you've probably heard that Volkswagen installed software in a number of its diesel vehicles that allowed them to cheat emissions testing and spew up to 40 times the legal amount of gunk into the air. But how'd they actually do it? It's apparently pretty simple....

Volkswagen Boss: 'We Have Totally Screwed Up'

Execs could face charges over emissions cheat

(Newser) - After rigging emissions tests to fool regulators, Volkswagen appears to have belatedly decided that honesty is the best policy. Michael Horn, the chief of the German automaker's US business, told an audience at an event in New York last night that the company had cheated, the BBC reports. "...

Billions Wiped Off VW's Market Value

Market value down almost $17B after cheating claims

(Newser) - Around $16.9 billion was wiped off the market value of Volkswagen AG today following revelations that the German carmaker rigged US emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars. By mid-afternoon trading in Frankfurt, Volkswagen's share price was down a stunning 18.1%. Its dramatic fall weighed heavily...

EPA Allegations Are Already Costing VW

Consumer Reports pulls recommendations of Volkswagen vehicles

(Newser) - "Buying bible" Consumer Reports has yanked its favorable ratings of diesel Jettas and Passats in the wake of the EPA's allegations that Volkswagen installed software in its vehicles to skirt federal emissions laws, USA Today reports. "These recommendations will be suspended until Consumer Reports can re-test these...

Volkswagen Is Cheating on Smog Tests: EPA

482K cars ordered recalled

(Newser) - If you drive a Volkswagen diesel model, your car might be getting recalled—though not for safety reasons. The Obama administration has ordered the carmaker to recall about 482,000 cars because, it claims, Volkswagen put illegal software in those cars designed to get around environmental standards, the New York ...

Robot Kills Worker in VW Plant

While it was being assembled, the machine struck man in chest

(Newser) - A story out of Germany is sure to spur lots of lines about our future overlords: A robot killed a worker inside a Volkswagen plant, reports the Financial Times . It seems to have happened as technicians were assembling the machine. "When the robot started up, it grabbed the man...

Big Winners at Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen, Ford

Golf, F-150 win car and truck of the year

(Newser) - Ford's radical move to aluminum for the body of its flagship F-150 truck has garnered it some additional material: The hardware that comes with the North American Truck of the Year Award. Ford took the top truck honor today alongside the Volkswagen Golf, which was named car of the...

UAW Appeals Tennessee Loss, Slams Sen. Bob Corker

Union says he unfairly swayed vote

(Newser) - The United Auto Workers is challenging last week's close vote by workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., that rejected the UAW's bid to represent them. In an appeal filed with the National Labor Relations Board, the union asserted that "interference by politicians and outside special...

VW Labor Chief to South: Get Unions or No More Deals

Union in Germany will block moves

(Newser) - The head of Volkswagen's General Works Councils in Germany is threatening to block any further investment in the southern United States, Reuters reports, after workers at VW's Chattanooga plant voted against union representation . "I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided...

Why Labor Lost Its Crucial VW Vote

 Why Labor Lost Its 
 Crucial VW Vote 
OPINION
Feb 18, 2014 1:35 PM CST

Why Labor Lost Its Crucial VW Vote

Pundits weigh in on what the UAW needs to do now

(Newser) - On Friday, the United Auto Workers union lost what had been hyped as a make-or-break vote for the future of the labor movement, as Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., rejected a company-backed plan to unionize. Why did that happen, and what does it mean for unions? Here's what people...

Huge Loss for UAW: Tennessee Workers Say No

Volkswagen employees reject union

(Newser) - Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted against union representation, a devastating loss that derails the United Auto Workers union's effort to organize Southern factories. The 712-626 vote released tonight stunned many labor experts who expected a UAW win because Volkswagen tacitly endorsed the union and even...

Seminal Moment for Auto Industry: Today's VW Vote

Republicans urging workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., not to unionize

(Newser) - Some 1,570 workers at a Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant will today finish a vote started Wednesday on whether they want to join the United Auto Workers union, in a potential turning point for the labor movement and the Southern auto industry. The UAW has never managed to organize a...

Last VW 'Hippie Van' to Be Built This Year

Sao Paulo-area factory to end production Dec. 31

(Newser) - It carried hippies through the 1960s, hauled surfers in search of killer waves during endless summers, and serves as a workhorse across the developing world, but the long, strange trip of the Volkswagen van is ending. A factory on Sao Paulo's outskirts is the last place in the world...

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