The “J” suffix on the engine cover symbolizes Yugoslavia. When the war in the former Yugoslavia ended in 1998, the factory ...

The 171bhp ID.4 Pro appeared in January 2022 as a new entry level for the 77kWh battery, then in November 2023 came an ...

The crisis around Volkswagen hits at the very heart of German engineering excellence. It's hard to be more German than ...

The spectre of deindustrialisation has long haunted Germany. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caused energy ...

If Volkswagen follows through with its plan, it would be the first time that the company has closed a factory in Germany. Volkswagen’s restructuring plans also point to larger issues within ...

The first Volkswagen factory closures are being considered, while Audi has confirmed the end of its Brussels site.

Union demands broader talks Following the meeting, Thorsten Gröger from the IG Metall trade union - which represents around 120,000 VW factory workers in Germany - said the company had introduced ...

Volkswagen has some 120,000 employees in Germany, where it has 10 plants -- six of them in the northern state of Lower Saxony, including Wolfsburg. A view of the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau ...

VW’s bosses, who have been talking to labour representatives for weeks, have not yet confirmed this. But if the factory closures do go ahead, they will be the 87-year-old carmaker’s first in ...

Volkswagen cast its least-profitable quarter in years as cause for the first factory closures in Germany in its 87-year history. Operating profit plunged 42pc to €2.86bn in the third quarter ...

Volkswagen AG laid out a cost-savings proposal to workers that could avoid factory closures in Germany. Arne Meiswinkel, the automaker’s chief negotiator, said the plan includes a 10% pay cut ...