9780393254501-039325450X-Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

ISBN-13: 9780393254501
ISBN-10: 039325450X
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Jack Ewing
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393254501
ISBN-10: 039325450X
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Jack Ewing
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal (ISBN-13: 9780393254501 and ISBN-10: 039325450X), written by authors Jack Ewing, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Hoaxes & Deceptions (True Crime, Company Profiles, Biography & History, Transportation, Industries, Automotive) books. You can easily purchase or rent Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Hoaxes & Deceptions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.45.

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A shocking exposé of Volkswagen’s fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.

In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world’s largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the conspiracy. He describes VW’s rise from “the people’s car” during the Nazi era to one of Germany’s most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being “green.” He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that the corporate culture they fostered drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. Unable to build cars that could meet emissions standards in the United States honestly, engineers were left with no choice but to cheat. Volkswagen then compounded the fraud by spending millions marketing “clean diesel,” only to have the lie exposed by a handful of researchers on a shoestring budget, resulting in a guilty plea to criminal charges in a landmark Department of Justice case. Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the succeed-at-all-costs mentality prevalent in modern boardrooms led to one of corporate history’s farthest-reaching cases of fraud―with potentially devastating consequences.

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