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Common Dreams reports:

In a slick protest and righteous reminder that Volkswagen has yet to leave behind its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, British activist and comedian Simon Brodkin sabotaged a VW presentation at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday. As marketing chief Juergen Stackmann sang the praises of their new electrically powered Up! models, Brodkin ambled [1] onto the stage in VW-branded overalls, wielding a wrench and prop [labeled] "cheat box", and began climbing under the car to "fix it". "It's okay, I have the new cheat box", he calmly explained to the bewildered Stackmann. "No one's going to find out about this one."

[...] As Stackmann tried to haul him out from under the car--"It doesn't need a repair, it's a perfect car"--Brodkin referenced VW's [lying, disgraced] CEO with, "Mr. Müller says it's okay as long as no one finds out."

[1] Content is behind scripts. archive.is clears up that nuisance.

Previously: Rogue Engineers and Vehicle Emissions
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1. "reports" - http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/01/its-perfect-car-pranking-vw#field-wrapper-author
2. "sabotaged" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/01/vw-car-launch-crashed-by-dieselgate-protester/
3. "ambled" - http://fortune.com/2016/03/01/protester-volkswagen-geneva/
4. "[1]" - http://archive.is/YYpFF
5. "archive.is" - http://archive.is/YYpFF
6. "Rogue Engineers and Vehicle Emissions" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/11/192233&mode=nested&threshold=0#articles
7. "More SoylentNews stories about VW." - http://www.google.com/search?num=33&q=site:soylentnews.org+VW+inurl:article
8. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=12498

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