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Mueller starts damage control as new VW CEO

Former Porsche chief replaces Winterkorn and pledges "unsparing investigation and maximum transparency" to restore confidence in group

Published Sun, Sep 27, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    Berlin

    VOLKSWAGEN'S new boss began trying to pull the embattled carmaker out of the wreckage of a pollution test rigging scandal last Saturday, as the US and Switzerland halted the sale of the group's new diesel cars.

    The 62-year-old former Porsche chief Matthias Mueller was tapped last Friday to replace Martin Winterkorn, who resigned over stunning revelations by US environmental authorities that the German carmaker had fitted some of its diesel cars with software capable of cheating environmental tests.

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