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Nobody currently working at VW/Porsche worked for Hitler, and nobody currently working at Ford helped Henry run the presses for his antisemitic pamphlets. So that's a nonissue.

What did Renault's founder do? Hadn't heard about that.

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Renault was collaborating during ww2, and built trucks for nazis. Female workers got their head shaved at the liberation (male workers got out OK though, funny how things works), and Renault got nationalized, and was under state control for the 4cv, 4l and r5/r6/r8/r11/r19/r21 models, as well as the 'moteur F', still used in the 2010s.

Its director was assassinated by a far right commando also (I think the killers got out early 2000s, the story is quite interesting).

VW was involved in a colossal emissions con.

As consumer I always wondered, were the cars worse for it? Or were they actually better, if I don't consider emissions critical in my decision making process.

They were better.

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