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Topic: Volkswagen

Toyota beats Volkswagen to become world’s top-selling automaker first time in 5 years

Toyota outperformed Volkswagen AG in 2020, a painful year for automakers that saw industry-wide factory and showroom shutdowns, dragging sales down 14% from 2019.

SC dismisses Skoda Volkswagen’s plea challenging FIR for ‘use of cheat device’ in car

The FIR was lodged in UP after a customer accused the carmaker of allegedly using a 'cheat' or 'defeat device', which is installed to manipulate pollution emission tests in vehicles.

Suicide bombing ‘ad’ not made by Volkswagen, it’s actually a 15-year-old spoof

The 32-second video going viral on Twitter features a man detonating a bomb while parked in a car on a busy street. However, the explosion is confined to the vehicle.

The electric cars are here. Now how about selling them

Customers don’t like paying up for new technology they’re unsure about, and they’re worried they won’t reliably get to where they want to go.

Small cars are being driven out of existence in the West, like the Volkswagen Beetle

Small cars are becoming an endangered species in the West. Consumers have voted with their wallets by buying SUVs & carmakers have been happy to oblige.

Volkswagen fined Rs 500 crore by NGT for damage to environment

The NGT said that Volkswagen's use of a 'cheat device' in diesel cars caused the damage, and directed it to deposit the money in two months.

Volkswagen was injurious to health: How NGT caught auto major cheating

In its report, a panel set up by the National Green Tribunal stated that Volkswagen cars released around 48.678 tonnes of nitrogen oxide in 2016.

NGT slams Volkswagen for not depositing Rs 100 crore as per its 2018 order

NGT had directed Volkswagen to deposit the amount with the CPCB over its alleged use of a ‘cheat device’ in diesel cars to beat environmental norms.

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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.