(11 Jan 2016) Volkswagen's (VW) top executive apologised on Sunday night for his company's emissions cheating scandal.
CEO Matthias Mueller spoke at a Detroit restaurant on the eve of the city's annual auto show.
Mueller told media and others guests that the carmaker "let down customers, authorities, regulators, and the general public" and that VW's "most important task in 2016 is to win back trust."
Hundreds of thousands of the German automaker's "clean diesel" vehicles were sold in the US with secret software designed to make their engines pass federal emissions standards while undergoing laboratory testing.
The vehicles then switch off those measures in real-world driving conditions, spewing harmful gases at up to 40 times what is allowed under federal environmental standards.
Mueller previously apologised for the scandal, but denies he and other corporate leaders at the company knew of the scheme.
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