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Under pressure from above, and worried for their jobs, Volkswagen engineers doctored tests to make VW cars look cleaner and thriftier than in real life. Today, Germany’s BILD Zeitung [German, paywall] has the details to a story that broke yesterday.

According to the paper, Volkswagen engineers uses a number of tricks to improve the official mileage of new cars. Tires were over-inflated. Diesel fuel was added to gasoline to lower friction and to increase energy. Data that had no relation to real life results was compiled into official reports, used for type approval, and to determine the car’s vehicle tax.

“Employees have indicated in an internal investigation that there were irregularities in ascertaining fuel consumption data. How this happened is subject to ongoing proceedings,” a Volkswagen spokesman told Reuters, declining to comment on the Bild report.



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