оригиналът е в Билд, но не шпрехам немски.
According to Bild, Winterkorn declared at the Geneva auto show in March 2012 that VW wanted to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30 percent by 2015 and the engineers did not dare to tell him that this would be difficult to achieve.
An engineer at VW's headquarters in Wolfsburg, who works in the Research & Development department, broke his silence at the end of October and told his superiors about the large-scale deception, Bild said citing only what it said was information it had received.
It said the engineers used several illegal measures to manipulate the emissions values, including through a higher tyre pressure of 3.5 bar. They also mixed diesel in the motor oil so that the vehicle ran more smoothly and used less fuel.
The paper said VW was examining which employees to suspend following the revelations but said the engineer who made the deception known would be allowed to stay.
"We can't punish someone who has taken such a brave step," Bild quoted a person in VW's top management as saying.
За да се постигнат по-добри показатели при измерването на разхода, в моторното масло на тестваните автомобили са сипвали нафта, за да се намали триенето в двигателя :O
Винтеркорн поставил изисквания до 2015-та емисиите да се намалят с 30% и никой не смеел да каже, че това е непостижимо.
Централата разследвала кои са отговорни за ползването на нафта като моторно масло и всички освен инженерът съобщил за манипулацията ще бъдат уволнени.