Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few...
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Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal by Ewing, Jack

Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

$73.85

Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

$73.85
Author: Jack Ewing
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Jack Ewing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393254501


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/20/2017
Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 93
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2017
Booklist 05/01/2017 pg. 46

About the Author
Ewing, Jack: - Jack Ewing has covered business and economics from Frankfurt for The New York Times since 2010. He has worked as a journalist in Germany since 1994, including over a decade as a BusinessWeek correspondent.

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