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Can VW survive?
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:36:58 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 10/15/2015 9:36 PM, wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:59:15 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:35:13 -0400, wrote: They still have not figured out how to deal with all of the non-conforming cars in the US that suddenly became scrap metal (you can't legally drive them here) === It should be easy enough to reprogram the computer to make them conform. They won't have the same power and economy however. There will no doubt be black market mods to reset them back after the dealer "de-powers" them. I suspect many will just continue to drive them as is. Now I am hearing rumors that the EPA is looking at the other VW cars (Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini etc) to see if they are cheating too. It is hard to believe that they spent all this time on a software trick like this and only used it once. I wonder how some of those cars perform in "more power" mode when it is a rich guy who doesn't care about the fuel gauge, only seeing the speedometer move.. The initial reports I heard included some Porsche models ... which is owned by VW. Also, only diesel powered cars are affected, not gas, as I understand it. That is what they have discovered anyway. The rumor is that they may have tweaked performance over emissions on the fast cars. |
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