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“Diess was incorrigible. He significantly changed Volkswagen for the better. But his communication was miserable,” one source said, asking not to be named.

Diess, in a LinkedIn post before Friday’s announcement of his departure, said: “After a really stressful first half of 2022, many of us are looking forward to a well-deserved summer break.”

Diess, a native of Bavaria in southern Germany, joined Volkswagen from BMW in July 2015, just months before news broke that VW had cheated emissions tests in the US.


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