---
title: "Drive Wire: The Year of Dieselgate"
description: "The biggest scandal in years."
date: "2015-12-30"
modified: "2015-12-30"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/1468/drive-wire-the-year-of-dieselgate"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Drive Wire: The Year of Dieselgate

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Since Dieselgate started in September, there has been a lot of bad press regarding Volkswagen Auto Group and understandably so. After the illegal software was exposed, the auto manufacturing giant had their CEO, Martin Winterkorn, step down, massive cutbacks took place and there is still a dark cloud looming over the tainted German brand. Although it is unclear how Dieselgate will come to a close, we do know there is still a long bumpy road ahead.

That’s it for today’s holiday edition of *Drive Wire*. From all of us here at *Drive Wire*, have a happy holidays and we look forward to hearing from you in the new year. For more, be sure to come back to [thedrive.com](<https://www.thedrive.com/>), and follow us [@thedrive](<https://twitter.com/thedrive>) on all your favorite social media platforms.

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