Interview: Rupert Stadler, Chief Executive, Audi

For Volkswagen Group executives, the press days at the 2015 IAA in Frankfurt were the calm before the storm. The emissions-cheating scandal had yet to become public, and they could focus on the usual glut of new models on view from their various brands, filling one entire hall and spilling beyond to the stand-alone Audi pavilion.

When Automotive World caught up with Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler,