VW Passat Variant 1.9 TDI Trendline Full Review,Start Up, Engine, and In Depth Tour

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For the past month or so Volkswagen has been in serious bother. An "insider" went to the German press and claimed the whole company was a hotbed of sex, bribery, corruption, hookers and champagne-fuelled orgies on private jets. It all sounded a bit far-fetched to be honest, the notion that the makers of the Golf diesel, with its sensible seats and big boot, could be a corporate version of the mafia. But blow me down. Heads have begun to roll. Executives have started to resign. This is extraordinary — Volkswagen is more powerful than half the world's countries. It owns Audi, Seat, Skoda and Bentley and employs 340000 people. It makes 5m cars and turns over £60 billion every year. And it's run by my old friend Burnt Fish Trousers, who's a model of decency, dignity and good old-fashioned manners. Yet the essence of the story, so far as I can tell, is that trade union leaders, who in Germany have a great deal of power, have allegedly been flown round the world on company jets and given £20000 company vouchers that they can use to pay for exotic escort girls and lap dancers. And then, in return, the Red Robboes are supposed to let the company reform its expensive labour policy. Frankly, I can't see what's wrong with that. If Mrs Thatcher had put Arthur Scargill on a private jet full of naked Vietnamese girls, an awful lot of stone throwing and angst would surely have been avoided. It's possible also that we would still have a car industry if Sir Michael Edwardes had shovelled <b>...</b>

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