EghtesadOnline: Volkswagen bosses were locked in a second day of hastily convened meetings to address a leadership crisis sparked by the arrest of the head of the carmaker’s Audi brand, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
EghtesadOnline: Volkswagen distributor in Iran Mammut Khodro started presales of two models, Tiguan and Passat, in Tehran last week. The cars found a warm welcome.
EghtesadOnline: A federal judge in Detroit sentenced former engineer James Liang to 40 months in prison on Friday for his role in Volkswagen AG’s multiyear scheme to sell diesel cars that generated more pollution than U.S. clean air rules allowed.
EghtesadOnline: Volkswagen AG plans to sell cars in Iran for the first time in 17 years, taking advantage of easing sanctions to expand amid concerns about stalling growth in Europe and China.
EghtesadOnline: Mammut Khodro, a joint venture between Mammut Group and Germany’s Volkswagen, is sending Iranian sales people to Volkswagen Academy for training.
EghtesadOnline: German car maker Volkswagen (VW) is reportedly pursuing plans to manufacture vehicles in Iran that will be optimized to run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
EghtesadOnline: Contrary to reports that commercial vehicle importer Khodro Sazi Sina (KSS) has outbid Mammut Group's subsidiary on the contract for the import of Volkswagen-branded cars to Iran; the managing director of KSS has dismissed the original report as "baseless".
EghtesadOnline: Germany’s Volkswagen says it has picked a local Iranian auto company to represent it in one of the biggest markets of the Middle East.
EghtesadOnline: Nissan Motor Co. joined German automakers BMW AG and Volkswagen AG in allowing the driving data collected by Mobileye NV chips and sensors to be used in a collective map to enable autonomous driving.
EghtesadOnline: A German court has rebuffed Volkswagen's attempt to prevent prosecutors from using information seized during searches of the law firm which the carmaker had hired to investigate its emissions scandal.