Updated On: 02 October, 2015 06:12 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>Green Car Journal announced it was rescinding the 2009 prize for the Volkswagen Jetta TDI and the 2010 prize for the Audi A3 TDI after the German carmaker admitted that it intentionally deceived government regulators overseeing air emissions rules</p>

A file pic from March 2014 shows Martin Winterkorn (L) then CEO of Volkswagen, and Volkswagen CFO Hans Dieter Poetsch. Poetsch will be proposed to take over as supervisory board chief
New York: Volkswagen has lost its “Green Car of the Year” prize for two models that employed technology at the heart of the German giant’s pollution-cheating scandal, US prize organisers said.

A file pic from March 2014 shows Martin Winterkorn (L) then CEO of Volkswagen, and Volkswagen CFO Hans Dieter Poetsch. Poetsch will be proposed to take over as supervisory board chief