The company said the ad, which features a white person flicking a black person into a café called "Petit Colon," "offends every decent person" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at ...

The history of Volkswagen is littered with great cars and even greater ads. For every brilliant model, there was a brilliant, funny, self-aware ad to sell it. Lists are exclusionary at the best of ...

A racist advertisement, aimed to promote the auto manufacturer’s new Golf 8, was posted on the official Volkswagen Instagram page. The ad, which has since been deleted, featured a giant white hand ...

An investigation within VW found no racist intent, but an executive said a lack of diversity among the staff was to blame. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was ...

Volkswagen is sorry. But it’s not exactly saying so in a new ad campaign. The world’s largest automaker has been on something of an apology tour since 2015, when it was publicly accused of using ...

Volkswagen of America has kicked off a new ad campaign with a new New York ad agency designed to move the brand forward and hopefully upward after the diesel engine scandal that has weighed down the ...

Volkswagen on Thursday blamed a "lack of sensitivity and procedural errors" for its failure to prevent the creation and publication of a racist video but resisted calls to fire those responsible. The ...

Volkswagen has released an extended version of its Super Bowl ad ahead of the Big Game, and it may not be what you expected. While the automaker’s teaser hinted toward yet another Star Wars-themed ...

Volkswagen couldn’t pump the brakes fast enough while careening toward a public-relations nightmare. The iconic German auto company was compelled to yank a 10-second advertisement off social media ...

Volkswagen is sorry. But it's not exactly saying so in a new ad campaign. The world's largest automaker has been on something of an apology tour since 2015, when it was publicly accused of using ...

Volkswagen won the hearts of the viewing public during last year's Super Bowl with a Star Wars-themed ad. This year the automaker returns to the galaxy far, far away — all the way to Tatooine. (For ...