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As widely expected, Porsche chief Matthias Müller (62) has now been appointed CEO of Volkswagen with immediate effect following a meeting of Volkswagen's Supervisory Board in Wolfsburg today.

The emissions system at the heart of the global Volkswagen diesel mess comprises many complex components, all of which have to work perfectly and consistently all the time, or the vehicle will fail to meet pollution standards.

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Volkswagen Group chose Matthias Mueller as its new CEO to replace Martin Winterkorn. Although Mueller will be surrounded by talented and experienced advisers I would like to share seven suggestion.

Volkswagen AG executives in Germany controlled the key aspects of emissions tests whose results the carmaker now admits were faked, three people familiar with the company's U.S. operations told Bloomberg.

U.S. environmental regulators will add more spot-checks to cars already on the road following Volkswagen AG's admission that it fitted as many as 11 million diesel cars worldwide with software that rigged pollution tests.

Hyundai said it would recall 470,000 Sonata sedans in the United States to replace faulty engine parts, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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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