&quot;that&#x27;s what the competitors in the US do&quot;<p>It&#x27;s also what another VWAG member, Audi, does on the TDI&#x27;s in America.<p>These were also very high level engineers.<p>I can also totally believe that, in order to not seem like a they wasted billions on engine development that they literally would not be able to sell without significant changes, that people in charge of the project would just figure out a way to make it seem like a success.<p>Contrary to what you say, this doesn&#x27;t require an entire corporate culture be rotten.  It&#x27;s like branches of a tree. The fact that one branch is diseased does not mean the entire tree is bad.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this happen in other companies before just in my little open source licensing world.<p>(some group head and his group lie to me about what they are doing, skirt the rules, etc.  right up until i catch them.  His boss then asks him what the fuck he was thinking and demotes or fires the group head)<p>As you get higher up, one of your biggest problems is, fact, people don&#x27;t want to tell you bad things.  My VP used to have a sign on his desk that said &quot;no surprises&quot;.  Because he wanted to know everything, whether it was good or bad.