Volkswagen вляпался в новый скандал: концерн 12 лет продавал тестовые машины

12 December 2018

Немецкий концерн вновь попал в неприятное положение

the Consequences of "Deselect" is still not eliminated: due to unfolding in 2015, the Volkswagen scandal has lost tens of billions of dollars, and trust to diesel engines was forever undermined. But now I discovered another deception of the German concern: he sold the pre-production instances, which was not supposed to get on a public road.

we are Talking about test cars. They are typically used for final inspection of individual systems. Some of them even get into the press and parks provide to journalists for test drives. All such machines will one event is a huge press. Visually and technically, such instances may not even be different from the serial completely legal, but legally they are not allowed to operate.

However, the result is a "gigantic error" (as this situation called the German newspaper Handelsblatt), the group sold similar cars since 2006. The latter instances were implemented in 2018, that is all this mess lasted for 12 years!

of Course, such machines are not sold as new. Each of them has already traveled (Volkswagen engineers or journalists), so they immediately got on the secondary market.

According to Handelsblatt, in total it sold 6 700 pre-production cars. All copies sold out in Europe and the United States. While Der Spiegel writes that the new head of the concern Herbert Diss (Herbert Diess) knew about this malpractice, 2016, but only to the present moment been able to break this vicious ring.

however, Der Spiegel writes that in total was thus sold 17 000 test cars Volkswagen, but the German manufacturer has confirmed only 6 700 cases. So many cars come under review.

In this case, absolutely not understand the motivation of the company. Even if such machines over 12 years of accumulated 6 700, 17 000: for such a large group it is a mere trifle, which actually does not affect sales statistics and financial performance. But now, Volkswagen will once again suffer a loss of reputation. While the company faces lawsuits from buyers and sanctions from government agencies.

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