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Becoming the R&D chief of the German premium brand Audi used to be the dream job of any engineer. Dieselgate has turned it into a suicide mission. Audi’s chief engineer Stefan Knirsch is at the end of his career only nine months after taking the job, German media report. This would be Audi’s second R&D boss to lose his job over dieselgate. Volkswagen’s statements that the cheat was the work of a few rogue engineers, and that nobody at the top had any idea, has turned into a bad joke.

According to the official line, Volkswagen is busy digging for the truth behind dieselgate, but it hasn’t found it. Changes at Volkswagen’s top speak louder than press releases. Soon after the scandal broke, Volkswagen decapitated its complete engineering leadership, from CEO Winterkorn, and rockstar über-engineer Hackenberg, on down. Volkswagen lost its R&D chief Heinz-Jakob Neußer, while Porsche  lost Wolfgang Hatz.
 

 



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Suicide Mission? Audi R&D Chief To Lose Job Over Diesel Cheat After Only 9 Months

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