Martin Winterkorn who got bounced from being the CEO of Volkswagen because of the ongoing nightmare involving diesel powered cars and cheating on emission tests work up to some really bad news today. German authorities are going to investigate him over this scandal:
The investigation will concentrate on the suspicion of fraud committed through the sale of vehicles with manipulated emissions data, and aims to determine who was responsible, prosecutors in Braunschweig said in a statement.
In the German system, anyone can file a criminal complaint with prosecutors, who are then obliged to examine them and decide whether there is enough evidence to open a formal investigation.
In this case, following the revelations about the rigged tests, prosecutors in Braunschweig, near VW’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, received about a dozen complaints, including one from Volkswagen itself, said spokeswoman Julia Meyer.
Lovely. I hope he has a good lawyer. One wonders how much worse this can get. Oh. It just got worse as the news is out that 2.1 million Audi cars are affected by this:
The Audi models that need to be upgraded to meet emissions regulations include the A1, A3, A4, A5, A6 sedans, the TT roadster and the Q3 and Q5 SUVs with 1.6-liter and 2-liter diesel engines, de Graeve said.
Of the 2.1 million autos, 577,000 are registered in Germany, 847,000 elsewhere in western Europe and 13,000 cars in North America. Audi, which is poised to lose its rank this year as the world’s second-biggest luxury carmaker to Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz, sold 1.74 million vehicles in 2014.
This could not have come at a worse time for the Audi brand as they were really starting to make inroads into the North American luxury market. I suspect that this will stall those efforts. Perhaps even kill them.
I wonder what’s next in this story?
#Dieselgate Continues To Get Worse…. And Worse…. And Worse
Martin Winterkorn who got bounced from being the CEO of Volkswagen because of the ongoing nightmare involving diesel powered cars and cheating on emission tests work up to some really bad news today. German authorities are going to investigate him over this scandal:
The investigation will concentrate on the suspicion of fraud committed through the sale of vehicles with manipulated emissions data, and aims to determine who was responsible, prosecutors in Braunschweig said in a statement.
In the German system, anyone can file a criminal complaint with prosecutors, who are then obliged to examine them and decide whether there is enough evidence to open a formal investigation.
In this case, following the revelations about the rigged tests, prosecutors in Braunschweig, near VW’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, received about a dozen complaints, including one from Volkswagen itself, said spokeswoman Julia Meyer.
Lovely. I hope he has a good lawyer. One wonders how much worse this can get. Oh. It just got worse as the news is out that 2.1 million Audi cars are affected by this:
The Audi models that need to be upgraded to meet emissions regulations include the A1, A3, A4, A5, A6 sedans, the TT roadster and the Q3 and Q5 SUVs with 1.6-liter and 2-liter diesel engines, de Graeve said.
Of the 2.1 million autos, 577,000 are registered in Germany, 847,000 elsewhere in western Europe and 13,000 cars in North America. Audi, which is poised to lose its rank this year as the world’s second-biggest luxury carmaker to Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz, sold 1.74 million vehicles in 2014.
This could not have come at a worse time for the Audi brand as they were really starting to make inroads into the North American luxury market. I suspect that this will stall those efforts. Perhaps even kill them.
I wonder what’s next in this story?
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