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VW's clean diesel promotion now looks like Jon Stewart gag

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By:
Mark Clothier and Jeff Green
September 24, 2015 05:00 AM

DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Eight years ago this week, a 53-foot tractor-trailer rolled out of Volkswagen’s U.S. headquarters on a four-month, cross-country mission to persuade America that dirty diesel was dead.

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