It's not just the four-cylinder models. Now the EPA says VW used a similar cheat on its larger, six-cylinder diesel engines. Two months ago, Volkswagen admitted it had used a sophisticated trick to ...

Cylinder deactivation is pretty easy to understand in, say, a V8 or V12, where not all the pistons need to be firing all the time. But cylinder deactivation on a four-cylinder engine? That’s something ...

The Volkswagen Group has recently closed a 33-going-on-34-year-old chapter in the German automaker's long history. According to Volkswagen Passenger Cars communication manager Andreas Schleith, the ...