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VW stops car production!!!

Yes folks VW has decided to work only on public transit. Rail specifically.

 

The thing is, since it has pretty much passed the short news cycle here in the US most people that use a car to get from point a to point b have forgotten about this already.

 

Ford killed 27 people with the 3 door 5 passenger portable stove also known as a Pinto. GM killed 124 with bad ignition switches AFTER they became a subsidiary of the US Government.

VW cheated on a test only government bureaucrats and car haters care anything about, and they're probably going to get fined 500-1000 times MORE than GM and Ford combined, then the government will try to make sure that every Diesel VW is reprogrammed to run like crap...

That proves to me that the government cares far more about petty regulations and fine generation than it does about the lives of the citizens it "serves". (I'd like to see the media hoopla on how the government assesses a fine against itself...) G(ovt)M and Ford should pay fines of $1B to the families of the people who lost their lives. VW should be made to fix the cars to pass the test fairly WITHOUT compromising performance and pay some restitution to owners for their inconvenience. Also assess a $1000/ ft-lb of torque lost and for each MPG lost payable to owners if they're forced to live with a degradation of performance; AND pony up a 250K mile power train warranty.

Give them some (significant but fair)pain, make the owners whole, and remember that no lives were lost.


If I had the money lying about, I'd go buy a new (or as new as I could get) Diesel Beetle today.

 

Read this over on the VW forum.

 

My neighbors have a Jetta diesel, they burn biodiesel and it smells like french fries when they drive past.

 

Volkswagen recalls own pants

by Sniff Petrol on Monday, September 21st, 2015

Volkswagen, yesterday

Volkswagen has issued a precautionary recall for its own pants after noticing that they may be on fire.

‘This is purely a precaution,’ said VW spokesman Karl-Hans Pinocchio. ‘Yes, there might be a small about of fire around the area of our pants, but they will not emit over 40 times the permitted amounts of nitrogen oxides and cause respiratory problems in children as long as we keep them inside this emissions testing facility.’

A VW insider later admitted that the emissions relating to the company’s pants being on fire are likely to be dwarfed by those caused by suddenly burning through $18 billion.

‘Look, this isn’t that bad,’ insisted a spokesman. ‘I mean, it’s not like we mouth banged a pig or something…’

 

Personally I think VW is cool. What a scam against the USA Oil magnets who tell the EPA how high to jump. More power to them. If there were more cars that got 60+ mpg, we wouldn't need to worry about our oil reserves.

 

Audi (part of VW) might want to rethink their "Truth in engineering" slogan.

 

The fact that they got away with it for so long is amazing..

 

Genuine German ingenuity.............

 

I liked my old Dodge work truck with the Cummings diesel. I wouldn't want to ride behind it though.

 

It was described in the official EPA Notice of Violation, and summarized in news reports.

The issue came to light initially after a study from researchers in West Virginia found that a 2012 Jetta and a 2013 Passat had substantially higher than reported emissions in use. VW denied that there was anything wrong with its models' emissions control systems and asserted that there were technical issues with the individual test cars. Still, CARB and the EPA launched investigations. VW issued a voluntary recall of affected models at the end of 2014, but CARB and the EPA were not able to find noticeably different results in recalled cars.

After the EPA and CARB made it clear that they would not certify VW’s 2016 diesel vehicles unless the company could explain the anomaly and make sure it wouldn’t reoccur, VW admitted to having installed the defeat devices.​

VW realized they wouldn't be able to get away with denying wrongdoing (with criminal consequences), so they admitted it.