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Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-when-you-thought-it-was-over dept.

New submitter sumanareddyraval writes: The fallout from the Volkswagen diesel scandal is spreading fast to the company's other famous brands, including Porsche and Audi, and across the Atlantic to the U.S. The scandal reached down into the company's engineering corps as the CEO of Volkswagen's US business, the research and development chief from Audi and the engine chief from Porsche, which are part of the Volkswagen Group, are said to be following Volkswagen's CEO out the door of the company, according to multiple reports Thursday. The impending departures are a sign that the Volkswagen scandal is ready to grow to much larger proportions.

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  1. Pulling that off was a major conspiracy by jfdavis668 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hiding car emissions was not done by a couple of people. A large number in the people inside these companies were involved in pulling it off.

    1. Re:Pulling that off was a major conspiracy by oh_my_080980980 · · Score: 1, Informative

      No it can't. Read the reports would you. People would need to know for this to happen. This was not the work of one lone rogue employee.

  2. Re:How long will the company stay up? by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do they? Frankly I have found the quality of Ford vehicles to have jumped leaps and bounds over 10 years ago. Their decision to start bringing in their European designs shows.

    GM isn't there yet, but they are making progress. The stuff they build today is also better than it used to be.

    The irony is the real fall off in quality is Japan. Toyota and Honda aren't what they used to be.

  3. Re:One guy is plenty by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know they say VW cars detected complex heuristics to determine if they're on the rolling bed....

    According to one article I read, the heuristic was "did the emissions testing technician put the car into emissions testing mode." Apparently, the cars need a separate setting for that to prevent the electronic stability control from going haywire when it starts reading the front wheels going 50 MPH while the back wheels are stationary.

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    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  4. Re:The real guilty party by GuB-42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Putting aside the debate about global warming, this it completely off-topic.
    The WV scandal is not about global warming. Global warming is mostly about CO2 and CO2 is mostly about fuel economy.
    Here the problem is that they cheated on NOx emissions, which are toxic (known to cause acid rains) but do not contribute to global warming. If anything, NOx cause global cooling.

    I think that "fuck you" is a totally valid reaction to highly loaded and off-topic "information".

  5. Re:The U.S and its heaven of protectionism by rubycodez · · Score: 2, Informative

    oh the U.S. companies who actually abide by the emissions law should somehow roll over for the poor foreign competition who didn't. go fuck yourself