With the economy a key factor in German elections this month, can the auto sector get back on the road to recovery?

Europe's largest auto manufacturer remained committed to Germany as a "business location" but "headwinds have become ...

VW’s new moves threaten to put an end to over a hundred years of automotive manufacturing traditions in Zwickau. To this day, Saxony remains a centre of the automotive industry in Germany’s ...

Additional cost-saving strategies under discussion include relocating the production of the Golf hatchback from the Wolfsburg factory in Germany to Mexico and ceasing the manufacture of VW-branded ...

After pressure from labor unions, VW backed down on the outright closing ... their roots in smaller European countries, but a factory in Germany would be a game-changer. Volkswagen's factories ...

AN ultra-rare 70s VW Beetle left "completely untouched ... making this one of the last to leave the factory in Germany. Pierre Tirone, European car specialist at Bonhams, said: "This 1979 ...

Director of Sales and Marketing Germany Volkswagen Passenger Cars Volkswagen has delivered yesterday at the Transparent Factory in Dresden the first XL1 to a customer. Together with his family ...

Volkswagen faces mounting pressure as 100,000 workers strike over wage cuts and factory closures ... 300,000 of them based in Germany. That means roughly a third of VW’s total German workforce ...

But VW ultimately pulled back from a threatened move to shutter factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history.

The deal eliminated the threat of lay-offs until 2030 and factory closures in Germany, but VW will halve its production capacity, leaving factories such as Zwickau to compete for future investments.

The Volkswagen logo is seen on the roof of the VW brand tower ... talks and repeated brief strikes at Volkswagen's plants in Germany. Under the deal, Volkswagen plans to cut the company's German ...