How Lamborghini came to be involved with dieselgate

Posted on 16-10-2015 at 10:52 by Ricardo – 29 Comments”

Wait. TDI engines with sjoemelsoftware that lead to raids at Lamborghini. What is going on here?

Yesterday was the Italian police in the context of #dieselgate the headquarters of Lamborghini. Remarkable, as in the engine compartment of Lamborghini’s we have, to date, no glow plug encountered. This could only mean one thing: the tractors of Lamborghini hang of fraudulent software to each other. But no, it was something else.

Handelsfraude

The raid was related to an investigation of six managers within Volkswagen Italy. The police are investigating whether there is handelsfraude. Something that may be the case when VW employees were aware of the sjoemelsoftware in the 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0 TDI engines (EA 189). In Italy, drive to 650,000 VW products that are ‘infected’ with the software. Under more VW Italy director Massimo Nordio is involved in the research.

Because Volkswagen Italy 100% owned by Automobili Lamborghini SpA, was also the administration of the sportwagenmerk examined. And so flies the wrecking ball of the emissieschandaal also went through to the outer brands of the Volkswagen Group. Painful…