The company said the ad, which features a white person flicking a black person into a café called 'Petit Colon,' 'offends every decent person'
“Hatred, racism and discrimination have no place at Volkswagen,” VW’s head of sales and marketing Jürgen Stackmann wrote onstatement
“We understand the public horror about it. Because we are horrified ourselves,” the statement read. “We are ashamed of it and cannot explain [how it came about]… We will make the results and consequences of the investigation public.”The statement acknowledged how the company was founded in the late 1930s under the Nazi regime, and said that's exactly why Volkswagen is “resolutely opposing all forms of hatred, agitation and discrimination.
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