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Credit ratings agencies Standard & Poor's (S&P) and Moody's have both warned over the credit rating of crisis-hit Volkswagen.

VW rigged emission tests on about 2.8 million diesel vehicles in Germany, the country's transport minister said, nearly six times as many as it has admitted to falsifying in the U.S.

Nissan has hired Microsoft communications manager Jonathan Adashek to head global communications. He will replace Jeff Kuhlman, who is returning to the U.S. for family reasons.

Daimler says it has not used defeat devices to manipulate its vehicles during emissions tests.

If not exactly a stampede, there is certainly an orderly queue of suppliers beating a retreat to distance themselves from one of the greatest business scandals to rock Germany in decades.

VW Group's supervisory board named Matthias Mueller as the automaker's new CEO. Sales boss Christian Klingler is out, Winfried Vahland will lead North America operations and Audi sales chief Luca de Meo will head the Seat brand.

Brussels is calling for "strict compliance" with polluting emissions regulations in the light of the Volkswagen scandal, which continues to rock Germany.

I'm not unsympathetic to him at all but, as the Volkswagen emissions-test rigging scandal continued to erupt this week, after the EPA's shock Friday night recall order announcement a week ago, Volkswagen's CEO Martin Winterkorn took the honourable and brave course, obviously after considerable discussion and thought, and, finally, offered the supervisory board his head on a plate - and his resignation was accepted. It was a sad and ignomonious end to a long and successful career.

DS is PSA's luxury brand, Citroen a quirky-mainstream marque, leaving Peugeot to be an alternative to Volkswagen. That's the theory. Where does the 208 GTi fit in then? There's new thinking here too: it's now part of the by Peugeot Sport sub-brand.

PSA/Peugeot-Citroen, Renault, Fiat and Opel could be hit by Volkswagen's admission that it rigged diesel engines to fool U.S. regulators as the revelations help to accelerate the technology's decline in Europe.

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The sudden departure this week of Vauxhall managing director Tim Tozer follows a disagreement within GM's European organisation on volume targets according to a Vauxhall retail network source speaking exclusively to just-auto.

UK engine output roses 15.8% year on year in August, with 112,777 units produced after domestic demand rose 15.1% and export volume was up 16.3%. Year to date volumes dipped 3.4% to 1,562,503.

French supplier Valeo is distancing itself from the current storm swirling around Volkswagen by noting it does not deliver control systems for diesel engines.

The European Union wants all member states to investigate how many cars use illegal defeat devices to cheat emissions tests in light of the scandal at Volkswagen, which the automaker says could involve 11 million diesel cars globally.

German magazine Auto Bild said it has no indication that BMW Group manipulated diesel emissions tests, clarifying its earlier report that an X3 had produced emissions more than 11 times the European limit when road-tested by the International...

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn made a speech on the sidelines of the Detroit show in English for the first time to emphasize the automaker's commitment to the U.S. market.

BorgWarner, ZF and GKN Driveline play keys roles in helping to reduce CO2 in the new Land Rover Discovery Sport.