Hazar Denli says a reddit AMA he hosted about his work with the Vietnamese automaker got him fired from a follow-up gig at Jaguar Land Rover
- Corporate politics may have played a role in the dismissal of a Jaguar Land Rover engineer, per the BBC
- The same engineer published concerns about the safety of the VinFast VF 8 via a reddit AMA
- He says his whistle-blowing on that website led to his being fired at JLR and subsequently blacklisted
“It could cause a loosening of the entire structure that could cause wheels to come off. In a crash scenario, it could be completely unsafe.”
These experiences apparently happened after Denli was appointed in September 2022 to lead the engineering team tasked with sorting out the VF 8’s front suspension, a job which was already underway when he arrived. Equipment failures are said to have started happening a few short months later, incidents he reported to colleagues. More problems are said to have occurred in subsequent testing.
Neither JLR nor Tata Group offered to give any comment to the BBC regarding its coverage of Denli’s allegations.
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