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In Reply to: On further consideration, the government required fix will hurt posted by PabloP on September 22, 2015 at 17:45:12:
Eee-Pee-Aay. Did you forget what it means? :)How does making them meet the VW-stated specs, and the required specs, "hurt" what the EPA is mandated to do? They are exercising their mandate, a function most Americans are probably quite glad to see happen (I speculate...) when the government actually does it properly.
It will hurt customers, sure. I suppose because you mean the actual/real-life specs of the car are not what they are said to be. But anybody who actually bought a diesel because they thought they were "greener" is going to be disappointed. So their feelings/green "pride" etc. will be hurt, and their wallets.
I have regularly heard all sorts of BS about why more diesels aren't sold "over here" compared to in Europe. The correct answer is because Europe has very lax emission requirements, which most diesels will not meet over here. It realy has nothing to do with "cleaner fuel" over there like some say, the same cars still wouldn't pass over here, even with their own European diesel fuel. Companies like MB invested a lot of $$ to make some of their diesels acceptable here. VW took a shortcut. Like I said below, many companies "design to the test", the way some teachers teach. Hard to blame them, but shortcuts aka cheating is a different matter.
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