In January 2017, the Detroit auto show had to share the headlines with an FBI arrest, a billion-dollar penalty, and a federal Notice of Violation. Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt was detained at a Florida airport over Dieselgate, Takata agreed to pay $1 billion for its deadly airbag inflators, and the EPA accused Fiat Chrysler of undisclosed emissions software on roughly 104,000 diesel trucks and SUVs. Why should muscle car fans care about any of it? Read on for what those three scandals say about the industry that builds the cars we love.
