It was on security, while the english standards were way harder than the continental ones about pedestrians colision. For a long time the test was only on the front left corner of the car (the nearest of the curb so the more risky for the pedestrians) and cars from V.A.G. Group obtained very good scores. The day the authorities decided to test the both front corners they saw that the group had performed only the front left corner, to pass the crash-test, but the front right corner was been low-costly done.
It's surprise me how some engineers can decide to spend money to occasionally avoid a problem rather than solving it once for all (I can't say designer would do better, I'm sure not).
The CEO logically quitted his position
(well, logically, but I always think that's too easy to quit than to
assume and repair his errors) just a few months after winning a hard
victory against the former CEO!
More than one unique case (I'm sure he
will find another good job fastly) it seems logical that the sales
will fall (at least in the USA) causing thousands of job losses...
and a fall of the financial trades (ie a fall of the capital
income... ie more job kills to regain money for capital), the avenir
of the whole group is uncertain.
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That's exactly it: Matthias Muller, boss of Porsche, former favorite of Martin Winterkorn (pushed out CEO of VW Group), then former favorite of Ferdinand Piech when he wanted to push out Winterkorn early this year, is taking Winterkorn's place.
ReplyDeletePiech failed and retired, the events finally put his favorite on the throne as he intended. I could see here a repetition from WWII, when the Nazis lost the militarian conflict... but not the ideological battle: their economic and social programs are the ones we see everywhere around the world for 40 years...