As flagged in our recent review of the excellent Seat Ateca, the company’s SUV line-up is set to get much bigger.

The are those in quiet corners of the VW empire that have, for many years, referred to the company’s Seat brand as ‘The Spanish Patient.’ 

We may have thought that the days of executive contenders from Volkswagen were long since gone — gone since the days of the ill-received and poor selling Phaeton.

Volkswagen is to cut 30,000 jobs in a restructuring plan as it tries to recover from a scandal over cars rigged to cheat on diesel emissions tests.

Volkswagen investors have formally filed lawsuits seeking a total of €8.2bn for losses stemming from the company’s emissions-cheating scandal.

Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, and auto suppliers Bosch and ZF said they were co-operating with German authorities after their offices were searched as part of a steel price fixing investigation.

Volkswagen will pay owners of its polluting diesel cars up to $7,000 (€6,160) and agree to fund a grant program to offset air pollution, under a $10bn settlement being negotiated for submission to a federal judge next week, people familiar with the talks said.

Shares in Fiat Chrysler slumped to a three-month low as its fight with Germany over vehicle emissions escalated after the country’s most-read newspaper reported that the authorities found that the company had cheated.

Volkswagen shareholder Lower Saxony wanted to withhold its backing for the carmaker’s top management at a supervisory board meeting but relented to avoid further damaging the firm, a source close to the German federal state said.

For young hipsters these days, it is hard to find a car that will match your inner style king with your budget. Coming up with a car that does not look like a hand-me-down from your granny and earn you nothing but brickbats from your mates is no easy thing.

Stephanie Baker looks at the complicated family behind automaker Volkswagen AG, which has been at the centre of a diesel emissions scandal, and the possibility of future leadership within it

Volkswagen shares climbed yesterday as it all but eliminated one front in the pollution scandal that has plagued the car maker for nearly three months, after the company’s suspicions of illegal discrepancies in carbon-dioxide emissions proved unfounded.

It is hard to know yet exactly what effect the Volkswagen ‘dieselgate’ scandal will ultimately have on the giant German manufacturer in terms of ongoing reputational damage and the financial fall-out that will inevitably follow.

German prosecutors have carried out searches as part of their investigation into the Volkswagen emissions scandal, seeking material that would help clarify who was responsible for the cheating.

In the many years I’ve been involved with the car industry I have come across many scandals and cover-ups involving auto-makers involving many aspects of their business, but I have never seen anything like the frenzy which has engulfed Volkswagen in the past fortnight.

Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn might not get the final payout he anticipated amid opposition from labour union leaders. 

The EU could introduce tougher car emissions tests following the Volkswagen rigging scandal, said senior European officials.

Resignation comes a day after asking the staff and public for trust

Martin Winterkorn’s days as head of Volkswagen appeared numbered yesterday after the German car maker said a scandal over falsified vehicle emission tests in the US could affect 11m of its cars worldwide.

Volkswagen lost almost a quarter of its market value after it admitted to cheating on US air pollution tests for years, putting pressure on chief executive Martin Winterkorn to fix the damaged reputation of the world’s biggest car maker.

It is never easy being the poor relation, especially when it seems you’re always being kicked in the teeth by superior and unbeatable forces. When you’re always regarded as second-class or completely downtrodden in some way or another, it is difficult to emerge from the stigma and establish yourself as a genuine and worthwhile being in your own right.

I have to admit I am a little nonplussed by the arrival to the car market here of the new Volkswagen Golf SV. Replacing the old Golf Plus, which did not sell well, the SV (it is called the sports van in Europe) is something of a curiosity.

Writer Jason Harper goes behind the wheel of the car that won this year's LeMans, the R18 E-tron.

Everton boss Roberto Martinez insists Ross Barkley is no diver and claims the incident where the Toffees midfielder went to ground in Saturday’s game against West Ham "has been blown out of proportion".

THE name Laurin and Klement might sound like a Paris couturier, but it was a company founded in the Bohemian town of Mladá Boleslav, in the late 19th century, that made bicycles and motorbikes, and cars after 1905.

Europe’s anemic car market rebound could be over before it has really begun. That is the fear of executives as they gather for the Paris car show on Thursday, the biggest industry event in the regional calendar.

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Volkswagen Group has announced a spending programme of over €50bn in its automotive division over the next three years.

Volkswagen said today it was on track to finalise the full takeover of sports car manufacturer Porsche by the end of the month.

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Alex Ferguson insists Manchester United are in better shape to handle their defensive injury crisis than they were last December despite raising the spectre of Rio Ferdinand missing the remainder of the campaign.

Tuncay has completed his move from Stoke to Wolfsburg.

FULHAM’S extraordinary season took another twist as they secured their place in the semi-finals of the Europa League with a 1-0 win over Wolfsburg in Germany.

Fulham manager Roy Hodgson is likely to make several changes for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League game against Wigan at Craven Cottage.

FULHAM, the conquerors of Juventus in the previous round, gave themselves a healthy chance of adding Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg to their list of victims as their season clocked up game number 52.

Fulham will face the Europa League holders Shaktar Donetsk in the round of 32 draw of the competition and then will face either Ajax or Juventus in the last 16.

Alex Ferguson is set to offer veteran duo Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes new contracts.