U.K. Journalist Lets Himself Off the VW Scandal Hook
The Independent's Sean O'Grady presents some fairly weak arguments.
This article is not going to sit well with the owners of those 11 million tricked-out Volkswagen TDI vehicles.
The Independent deputy managing editor Sean O’Grady starts out by reminding us just how lavish automobile junkets can be. We’re talking cocktails with gold flakes (Saab), complimentary Breitling watches (Bentley) and more. Then he offers up this opinion:
Why, I am asked, didn’t the motoring journalists uncover the VW emissions scandal? Too lazy – or corrupt? No. The truth is that motoring writers have been banging on about the glaring differences between real-world fuel consumption and the “official” test figures for years, me included.
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