Question

A review of Volkswagen's internal memos and emails suggests that company executives pursued a strategy of delay and obfuscation with United States regulators after being confronted in early 2014 with evidence that VW diesel vehicles were emitting far more pollutants than allowed by law. True or false?

Answer 1

Answer:

true

Explanation:

The whole Volkswagen scandal was a huge and elaborate corporate scam. They first tried to blame engineers in their North American division, but then it was known that they cheated in Germany and other European countries, as well as in factories in Argentina and Brazil. The only place that they were not investigated was in China, and that is very suspicious because half of their cars are produced and sold in China. It was a huge cover up operation that was aimed at protecting top executives in Germany.

The first car I bought with my salary was a Jetta (it was much cheaper than a Civic). So I read a lot about the scandal and its effects were not that large in North and South America, but in Europe the allegedly clean diesel engines drove their competition out of the market. French car manufacturers Citroen and Peugeot competed against Volkswagen with diesel cars and after not being able to compete against the wonderful new engines, they went bankrupt. In Europe gas is very expensive, so cars are very small and fuel efficient. The strange coincidence is that a Chinese company bought Citroen and Peugeot, which made them the real winners of the whole situation.