Europe’s largest automaker recalls 4 million cars over safety concerns

Some Volkswagen vehicles could suffer steering failure due to corrosion, the company has warned The German automaker giant Volkswagen is recalling some 4 million vehicles worldwide over fears that they could suffer a sudden steering failure. The development comes as the world’s second-largest car manufacturer is grappling with soaring costs and massive worker protests over plans to slash around 100,000 jobs worldwide.A safety-related quality issue was recently discovered in numerous vehicles produced by Volkswagen and its subsidiaries: a bolt securing the steering system turned out to be susceptible to corrosion and could potentially snap, rendering a vehicle unsteerable, Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority reported.The issue affected around 2.16 million Volkswagen cars, including Golf, Tiguan, Touran, and Caddy models produced between September 2013 and July 2024, as well as more than a million Czech-made Skoda vehicles, around 700,000 Audis, and approximately 200,000 cars of a Spanish brand Seat. The German media call the development the biggest recall since the 2015 ‘dieselgate’ scandal, when Volkswagen was found to have sold cars to the US that had special software allo...