08-Oct-2015 19:23:46
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Re: VW caught cheating emissions tests
fritz:reginos:JimFlat6:11 million consumers defrauded is no small matter. The final fix will either be expensive buy backs or expensive modifications that might give owners less efficiency and performance. IF VW chose to due what t hey did to avoid having to license adblue technology from benz, then likely Piech knew of it. Since Wolfgang Porsche is the chairman of the VW investigative committee, you never know what family squabbles will be resolved under cover of this self created catastrophe.
I own two TDI cars and I don't feel defrauded. As a reasonable man I can understand that the share of these engines to the pollution on the planet is less than negligible. Look at USA's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol and refusal to ratify
If the efficiency and performance are eventually reduced I would blame the EPA for starting this theatrical persecution of VW. Everybody with knowledge of the world can understand that the motives are not bona fide.
From today's Congressional Hearing:
"11:11 a.m.
Volkswagen says most of the 500,000 U.S. cars with diesel engines that cheat on emissions tests will need complex hardware and software fixes that will take several years.
U.S. CEO Michael Horn is telling a U.S. House subcommittee that the cars will still get the window sticker fuel mileage when they are repaired. But the fixes might affect performance, including a one-or-two mile-per-hour drop in top speed.
Horn says software changes alone will work for newer models, but 430,000 cars dating to 2009 will need mechanical fixes that are still being developed.
Horn says software will repair about 90,000 newer Passat models, but they may need an additional sensor".
With great interest, I watched the U.S. House subcommittee hearing this morning, and I very disappointed in my Country's lawmakers. Volkswagen did break the law, that is not in question, as Volkswagen's senior executives have said the same ever since the EPA Notice of Violation letter was sent to Wolfsburg and the company is working at possible solutions.
What I take umbrage in, is the blatant attempts to send a comeuppance to Volkswagen when domestic automakers have defrauded consumers with products that have resulted in confirmed deaths. Volkswagen has acknowledged that it will pay the costs associated with this recall campaign, including fines and other legal costs. Equating deaths with a violation of a regulation is incredibly shortsighted.