Two months before the scandal became public, Volkswagen planned a highly selective disclosure strategy, the paper says in its Sunday edition. The usually well-informed mass circulation tabloid cites and shows PowerPoints from a presentation chaired by Martin Winterkorn himself. Rather that advocate for disclosure of the defeat device to U.S. regulators, VW executive management authorized its continued concealment.”Not exactly, says the document revealed today. BILD’s translation: “The exhaust is blown out unfiltered.” At Volkswagen, “acoustic mode” was the code word for the defeat device cheater software. Meeting participants told BILD in unison that the meeting decided on the “offensive” strategy: Full disclosure.

Source: Forbes January 15, 2017 09:59 UTC