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Jan 2020
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Volkswagen Diesel Scandal - Whatever It ...

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In 2006, Volkswagen executive Martin Winterkorn hatches a plan to boost auto sales in America. The way to do it? Clean diesel cars. But VW's engineers run into a wall, and so they take a troubling shortcut—one that a group of graduate students will inadvertently expose. Need more American Scandal? With Wondery+, enjoy exclusive seasons, binge new seasons ... Show More
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