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The company is looking at slash regular service cost by 24 per cent to 44 per cent across different models of the VW brand.

German prosecutors have widened a probe into suspected market manipulation by managers at Volkswagen to include the carmaker`s supervisory board Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, VW said on Sunday.

An investigation commissioned by Volkswagen into its emissions test cheating scandal has found no evidence against the head of its Audi luxury car division, three people familiar with the matter said.

Auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH concealed the use of Volkswagen AG`s secret "defeat device" software that it helped design and demanded in 2008 that the German automaker provide legal protection in its use, lawyers for American owners alleged in a court filing.

Volkswagen is planning further acquisitions in the market for new transportation technologies and services, a leading manager at the German carmaker said, as it seeks to make up ground after its emissions scandal.

Volkswagen admitted in September that it had installed software on diesel cars that tricked US emissions tests into showing the cars met environmental standards. After testing, the device switched off, allowing the vehicles to spew up to 40 times the permitted amounts of nitrogen oxides.

The Volkswagen Ameo will be manufactured at VW's Chakan facility in Maharashtra. It will compete with the likes of Maruti Swift Dzire, Hyundai Xcent, Honda Amaze, Tata Zest and Ford Figo Aspire.

Germany's Volkswagen said Wednesday an internal probe had found that 800,000 more vehicles showed "inconsistencies" on carbon emissions, including the first petrol engines, as the auto giant sank deeper into a massive pollution cheating scandal.

Volkswagen may offer VW owners in Germany discounts on new cars if they turn in certain old models affected by the emissions scandal that has rocked Europe's biggest carmaker, German news agency DPA reported on Sunday.   

Owners of Volkswagen (VW) cars in South Korea plan to file a lawsuit in the US against the German carmaker over its emission rigging scandal, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

Several engineers at scandal-hit German automaker Volkswagen have admitted to installing the device in the company's cars aimed at cheating pollution tests, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The Italian antitrust authority has opened an investigation into Volkswagen (VW) for possibly misleading consumers who have bought diesel cars from the German automaker.

Probe into possible emission test manipulations by Volkswagen in India as it did in the US and other markets has been extended till the end of this month with the government giving more time to testing agency ARAI.

Volkswagen Group could have to pay billions of dollars worth of fines in Australia, after the nation' s consumer watchdog announced it was investigating the car manufacturer on Thursday.

German carmaker Volkswagen is expected to recall around one lakh cars in South Korea following its cheating scandal in diesel emissions, the media reported.

German auto giant Volkswagen on Wednesday shifted up a gear in its plans to recall the millions of cars fitted with pollution-cheating software as it stepped up efforts to find the masterminds behind the scam. 

German prosecutors launched an investigation on Monday into former Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn over the rigging of vehicle emissions tests, as the carmaker suspended three top engineers in an attempt to tackle the crisis.