Thing about this is, your average bloke in the street driving his VAG car couldn't really give a hoot about a bit of trick software as long as it passes the MOT every year with needing a wad of cash to get it through the emissions test. Just so happens it's the US officialdom that's getting their pant's all bunched up, more because the US car industry was taking kicking from people buying cars from overseas, yet, as is often pointed out by the tree hugging brigade, US industry in general, puts out more pollution into the atmosphere than all diesel cars combined. Yet you don't see the same US officials threatening their own industry with law suits and heavy fines...
Yep but wait till the next budget and see how much the road tax goes up on them! Then see how much the average man is worried
Wouldn't stop me from buying 1 of their cars. I have a feeling that they will find more manufacturers at it. I believe BMW and Porsche are also being investigated. Thing with all the new emission laws is that they have possibly set the bar too low that maybe it isn't possible for companies to reach them? Is it much different from the likes of Aprilia who make their bikes quieter while in neutral but then the db reading goes up when actually on the move. End of the day it's a combustion engine. Not much has changed really to the basics of the running engine
"Is it much different from the likes of Aprilia who make their bikes quieter while in neutral but then the db reading goes up when actually on the move". So no exhaust valve on a blade....or r1......or........
The general public for the most part couldn't care what amount of nox or co2 gases come out the back of their vehicle as long as it's affordable and allows them to get work and back or wherever they want to go. The biggest folks that will be well pissed is the government coffers who will see it as lost revenue from the co2 tax scheme that they devised back in 2001 which hammered people who suposidly drive more polluting vehicles, which drove the market to want and buy more diesel vehicles as those generally were lower costing in the tax bands........there is a reason why the diesel car market jumped up from less than 7% to over 33% in last decade!
Does make you think about about exhaust valves and air box flaps though. You know, the ones some of us have had removed
