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Skoda outshines its parent company again with this SUV that’s the first non-VW-badged use of the group’s new battery electric platform
19 April 2021 • 1:32pm
It's the honesty that impresses, although the options are expensive to make sure base versions qualify for a Goverment grant
Last month, Volkswagen’s appointed investigators wound up their investigation into precisely who knew what in the diesel emissions-cheating scandal. Five years of work, 480 million documents examined, countless interviews, several arrests and jail terms, and some owners’ class actions settled; it’s been a marathon.
Early reports indicate that Volkswagen will be pursuing actions for damages against former chief executive Martin Winterkorn and his equivalent at Audi, Rupert Stadler – the latter recently described by one of my German colleagues as “a man of disgrace”.