The reason why only Volkswagen sjoemelde

Posted on 21-02-2016 at 20:15 by jaapiyo – 64 Comments”

We now have finally our finger behind managed to get.

According to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, that this weekend by Automotive News was discovered, was Volkswagen AG last year, is really unrivalled in the automotive industry in terms of expenditure on ‘Research and Development’. VAG pulled according to PwC the wallet for a whopping 15.3 billion U.s. Dollars. The number two in the list (Toyota) follows from an appropriate distance with a ‘lousy’ $9.2 billion. According to PwC, these expenses fairly constant, so it is not going to be outliers.

Interesting is that the brands of VAG still get criticism, because all of the models, is simply a copy-paste exercise would be of old bite. Also a man like Jeremy Clarkson did ever the words that the Porsche designers are the laziest in the world. Rightly or not, to the R&D budget, so it can not lie.

But what VAG then do with the money? What a inkoppertje; the section called ‘meganerds with computers that write software’, is likely to be for many years, the cream of the Wolfsburgse Lachs (that is German for salmon), where you had to if you career wanted to make. Anyone who has one or more extra grams of CO2 emissions of that test cycle, af managed to get got three weeks of paid leave. The other brands, that is not the vision had to be big with money to throw, looked on with heavy eyes to how they appear in the fine dust bites on the bench with their much higher values. In the real Formula 1 did VAG not bad but their engineers had this race with aiming difference won.

But when it turned out that the softwarekoningen just a little too far were gone in the manipulation of the test. “In Formula 1 you stand with the innovation within (or just outside) the mesh of the act on the stage, in the rest of the world on the scaffold without honor. The law of the inhibiting lead of shall we say…