Volkswagen has shelved plans to overhaul the management of its North American business and will not address its future strategy there until it has reached legal agreements over its rigging of emission tests, two sources familiar with the matter said.Volkswagen has long been struggling in the United States and the country became the focus of the biggest business crisis in its 78-year history last month when American authorities exposed its use of "defeat device" software to cheat diesel emission tests.
The German carmaker now faces intense U.S. legal scrutiny including more than 300 lawsuits, mainly from individual drivers of its diesel cars, and investigations by Congress, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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