Dieselgate 2.0: Porsche And Audi Caught Using Sophisticated Defeat Devices

Volkswagen definitely is gunning for the “habitual cheater” title. Apparently, no lessons were learned when VW was involved in the biggest, and definitely most costliest cheater scandal the auto industry has ever seen. Volkswagen AG has (so far) “agreed to spend up to $25 billion in the United States to address claims from owners, environmental regulators, U.S. states and dealers, and offered to buy back about 500,000 polluting vehicles,” wrote Reuters. Volkswagen subjected itself to intrusive oversight, it even offered six mostly mid-level managers as sacrificial lambs, and vowed to go forth and sin no more.

A few months later, the sinning continues, and it has reached new levels of sophistication, reports from Germany suggest. The reports already are talking about “Dieselgate 2.0.”

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