The 2015 diesel scandal resulted in a 40% drop in the company’s share price at the time.
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Tesla has a lot more going for it than just its electric cars. VW must think wider and bolder to save the business.
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Uber, Tesla and Waymo (Google) are leapfrogging traditional car makers like Ford, VW and General Motors when it comes to self-driving cars.
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Researchers funded by VW, Daimler and BMW are accused of testing diesel fumes on monkeys and humans.
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Politicians need to get serious about the steady drip of scandals.
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Auctioneers have put a record price tag on the ultimate symbol of 60s counterculture and vintage nostalgia.
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How can companies brought low by scandal or failure remember the lessons they should be learning?
The ACCC is taking VW to court.
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The ACCC has launched proceedings against VW for allegedly misleading consumers. But consumers won’t be directly compensated from the case.
Shockwaves. Momentum is with electric cars.
Sergio Monsalve
The vacuum cleaner maker faces the same challenges as Elon Musk against the big auto players – so maybe it’s time to try a different road.
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Cooperation between regulators and the car industry has led to a huge reduction in dangerous emissions – and we can expect further progress.
The world in their hands. But were hopes for CSR over-inflated?
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How to make companies take seriously their responsibilities to the rest of us.
Awaiting a new model. Car firms struggle to adapt.
Dan Buczynski
Volkswagen’s example offers up a useful lesson in managing a troublesome hierarchy.
In a spin. Underestimating your customers?
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Volkswagen and others may have been hamstrung by a low opinion of indifferent car buyers.
Consumer baiting?
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Why do companies devote so much energy to ingenuity that causes harm?
The tainted VW Group may drag the rest of the car manufacturing industry into the mud.
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The VW emissions scandal gives governments every right to increase their supervisory role beyond regulation and to involve themselves to a much larger degree in economic activity.
Australia’s lower standards for car exhaust mean overseas car-makers can sell more-polluting cars.
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Australia is literally years behind European and US vehicle emissions standards, allowing car-makers to sell more polluting cars.
Classic VW ad from 1962.
The scandal around the German car maker is all the more galling for a company that created arguably the best advertising in history.
Global scrutiny has pummelled VW shares.
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The market reaction to the VW emissions scandal is just like that of a jilted lover.