Revamped, interim Golf 7.5 is a car and a half

It is astonishing to think that one of the biggest automotive companies in the world could get enmeshed in a tawdry, shameful game of deceit in the pursuit of market share and profit, and believe it would not be caught.

Yet that is exactly what happened when Volkswagen realised that a newly developed range of diesel engines was not capable of meeting stringent American CO2 and NOx emission levels.

It developed technology to fool testers into thinking the company’s cars were clean.