Volkswagen Is Killing Seat To Save Its Own Spinoff — and Just Admitted To 2,600 Different Car Seat Designs
Volkswagen's plan to halve its lineup by 2030 also kills the Seat brand — and reveals a stranger number buried…
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VW’s Layoffs Could Hit 140,000. The Family That Controls the Company Already Wrote Off the Loss and Went Shopping for Drones
Volkswagen wants the headline to be about jobs. On August 24, labor representatives told employees...
Volkswagen’s CEO Called It a ‘Mega-Crisis.’ His Own Numbers Say the Real Enemy Is the Org Chart
Oliver Blume did not have to reach for the words “mega-crisis.” Volkswagen already had perfectly...
Mercedes’ Next EVs Are Being Built From Scrapped Cars. The Real Reason Has Nothing To Do With Saving The Planet
Somewhere in Norway, an aluminum smelter running mostly on hydroelectric power is melting down old...
Audi Already Closed One EV Plant. The One It Might Close Next Builds an EV, Too.
Audi already knows what happens to a plant that builds an electric car nobody buys...
Porsche Just Raised Its Layoff Total to 8,900. The Growth Rate Is the Real Warning Sign
Porsche’s supervisory board didn’t just approve another 5,000 job cuts this week. It quietly admitted...
Volkswagen Wants to Axe Half Its Lineup. It Just Spent Three Years Building the Half It’s About to Kill
Volkswagen had a rough Friday. Group deliveries fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just...
Mercedes-AMG’s Legendary Four-Cylinder Is Dead. What’s Left Is a Speaker Playing Its Ghost
For twelve years, the “45” on the back of a Mercedes meant something specific: a...
Porsche Reportedly Wants To Pull Cayenne Production Out Of Slovakia And Move It Home To Germany
Porsche is reportedly hauling one of its bread-and-butter models back onto home turf. According to...
Volkswagen Weighs Closing Four German Plants and Cutting 100,000 Jobs in Its Biggest Gamble Yet
Volkswagen is reportedly considering the most severe restructuring in its 89-year history, and the scale...
VW, Porsche, and Honda All Stumbled the Same Week, And It’s Not a Coincidence
The global auto industry just lived through one of its roughest stretches in recent memory,...
Is Volkswagen’s Meltdown the Worst Crisis in Automotive History? Here’s the Case for and Against
Volkswagen has survived existential moments before. The most obvious comparison is the Dieselgate emissions scandal,...
The ‘Stolen’ Koenigsegg One:1 Everyone Panicked Over Was Never Actually Stolen
A Rare Hypercar, a Viral Rumor, and a Far Less Dramatic Truth For months, the...
German Police Turn Frosted Patrol Car Windows Into a Winter Safety Lesson
A Frosty Canvas With a Serious Message As heavy snow blanketed Germany during the holiday...
Stellantis Joins Germany in Push to Soften EU’s 2035 Emissions Deadline
Stellantis Backs Berlin’s Push for Flexibility Stellantis is backing Germany’s effort to revise the European...