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VW official says emissions cheating started in 2005

By Kyle Feldscher
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VW official says emissions cheating started in 2005

The Volkswagen engineers who installed “defeat devices” in vehicles to cheat emissions tests started their scheme in 2005 because they couldn’t figure out how to pass U.S. tests, a company official said Thursday.

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