Well...technicallyyesif you mean total emissions rather than exhaust emissions. It's still fractions of what an ICE-powered vehicle puts out, though.
Volkswagen gets busted.
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Whelp, I'm in the market for a used car. May have to be a VW now, their value is bound to come down.
Apparently the EU doesn't have as strict regulations on nitrous oxides which are the problem here. Apparently this is also why in NA we don't see the 40-50 mpg diesels.
Diesel was just starting to improve its reputation after memories started fade from the black smoke era, I imagine they're dead here for another 20-30 years.
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This should be way worse than gm knowingly allowing a ten cent part to kill people for 5+ years.
I think the final toll was like 50 at around 3 billion to settle, all while the ceo is getting 10 mill a year in compensation? Not looking it up but I'm confident it's fubar
I think this will force VW to adopt or push the electric car much faster than they planned. They could probably afford the fine but in the end they will simply pay a % of it just like the apple/samsung case.
What that really interest me is how they will find the way to fix all those cars. The easy fix is that they could probably play in the software but this will impact the performance. How will the current owner react to it? They might come with an interesting work around and I'm really curious to find out.
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While I agree that this is really bad I do find it sad that an EPA lie look way worse than those life lost by GM scandal. I really don't get it.
What that really interest me is how they will find the way to fix all those cars. The easy fix is that they could probably play in the software but this will impact the performance. How will the current owner react to it? They might come with an interesting work around and I'm really curious to find out.
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While I agree that this is really bad I do find it sad that an EPA lie look way worse than those life lost by GM scandal. I really don't get it.
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For GM? Fine was $927M and current CEO has only been with the company for a few years.
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I wonder how many people died while congress was trying to scold Toyota over "mysterious" acceleration.
This just seems like a continuation of that, shitty politics protecting shitty American companies. These pollution standards have zero to due with health and everything to due with keeping better performing cars out of this country so shity companies like GM dont die a second time.
Wonder what happened to this retard?
Runaway Prius May Stay a Mystery: NHTSA | NBC 7 San Diego
This just seems like a continuation of that, shitty politics protecting shitty American companies. These pollution standards have zero to due with health and everything to due with keeping better performing cars out of this country so shity companies like GM dont die a second time.
Wonder what happened to this retard?
Runaway Prius May Stay a Mystery: NHTSA | NBC 7 San Diego
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He was killed some three days later when his shopping cart, unable to brake, collided with a decorative display stack of Coca Cola 12 packs.
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Already one lawyer is starting a class action suit.
There's no way they don't get screwed for this one.
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Current owner here and I do have a curious work around. I'm not going to take it in for the recall. If we take it in for other service and they do it despite us telling them not to, that's when we might consider suing.
Wife and I had a good chuckle about the whole thing this morning.
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I own a 6th gen GTI and after 5 years and 170 000 km I still like it very much. I was poking fun to my coworkers that have TDI today. Their reaction sounded like yours.
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So the cars need to pass a set testing cycle in order to be allowed on the road.
VW builds cars that pass the testing cycle.
No problem right? trololololol.jpg
German minister of traffic announced they'll be looking into this. I see VW stock taking another huge dive.
Make sure to testeverycar though. I wonder what the footprint of the popular US and Japanese made cars look like. Gasoline or Diesel, test everything.
Meanwhile:
VW builds cars that pass the testing cycle.
No problem right? trololololol.jpg
German minister of traffic announced they'll be looking into this. I see VW stock taking another huge dive.
Make sure to testeverycar though. I wonder what the footprint of the popular US and Japanese made cars look like. Gasoline or Diesel, test everything.
Meanwhile: