Audi allegedly exports thousands of cars with same VIN

Looks like the Volkswagen Group just cannot be off the news - and quite often, its up there for wrong reasons. Now, the firm’s premium brand - Audi, has been found guilty of exporting thousands of cars to Asia - with the exact same Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) stamped onto their chassis!

This was discovered when German investigators raided Audi’s office to further investigate the company’s involvement in the Dieselgate scandal - after the German Transport Ministry accused Audi of cheating emission testing on 24,000 A7 and A8 diesel models.

According to the documents found during the raid, thousands of Audis exported to China, Japan and Korea - allegedly carry overlapping VINs. Since the number of vehicles involved are so large in number - faulty tooling during the manufacturing process can be ruled out in this case.

VIN is a 17 digit number which should be unique to every vehicle. This number is used to extract essential information about the vehicle, like where a car was produced, the year of manufacture and engine specifications. They're used to track things like theft, recalls and number of ownerships.

Audi, obviously, responded to this with ignorance - saying the company is unaware of any such development. Whatever may be the reason behind this - it looks like there’s another dent in the Volkswagen Group’s perceived integrity.