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The Case

In September 2015, what has become the world's largest automotive scandal began to unfold as US regulators charged Volkswagen (VW) with using software in some of its diesel engines that could fool emissions tests into thinking the affected vehicles were within permissible US pollution limits. What followed has been two years of investigations, admissions, lawsuits, penalties and disclosures that have affected not only VW but the entire automotive industry. VW has been in crisis management mode ever since, seeing a scandal that it initially blamed on a few rogue engineers reach into the top echelons of its corporate structure and resulting in billions of dollars of fines. How did one of the world's most respected and largest automakers handled the events that even a top executive called an "existence-threatening crisis". It was "an important milestone for us on the way towards clearing up the problem that we caused some time ago," said the new CEO in September 2015 after his predecessor, Martin Winterkorn, was forced to quit over revelations that the company had used secret software in its diesel cars to cheat emissions tests.