comic customer trust is the most important asset germany s automakers appears to have squandered the trust with the diesel emissions scandal though dime not the maker of most savings cars and trucks always stressed that it has nothing to hide it is now being accused of using cheating software on some of its u.v. s as well and even worse it looks like don look tried to hide it was german carmaker dime they re trying to hide its deception authorities are now investigating mercedes s.u.v.s produced between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen those vehicles apparently had the cheating software which manipulated exhaust emissions values the software was updated to remove the cheating element now germany s motor vehicle authority is accusing dimond of removing another element in the software that initially had gone unnoticed by regulators. it s always a good time names who could have looked as if time were trying to remove