3:42 pm, January 21, 2014
GERMANY’S largest motoring organisation is facing humiliation as more revelations emerge that it rigged the voting in its car of the year award.
The ADAC, Germany’s equivalent of the AA, is known as Europe’s largest motoring organisation and is seen as a trusted source.
However, revelations are surfacing it has fixed its ‘Golden Angel’ competition – a membership ballot that selects Germany’s car of the year – for years.
The number of votes awarded to this year’s winner of the accolade, the Volkswagen Golf, was increased ten-fold, the organisation’s communications chief executive, Michael Ramstetter, revealed to the Germany newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung.
According to The Independent, the Golf only received 3,400 votes from ADAC members, and not the 34,000 the car seemed to have been awarded.
Ramstetter said he would be resigning from his position.
