Volkswagen bosses were locked in a second day of hastily convened meetings to address a leadership crisis sparked by the arrest of the head of the car maker’s Audi brand, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.
Hours of negotiations by Volkswagen’s (VW) and Audi’s supervisory boards on Monday failed to reach an agreement on how to respond to news that German authorities had detained Rupert Stadler as part of their investigation into the group’s emissions test cheating scandal.