« Reply #9 on: 22 September 2015, 14:45 »
were VW 'stupid enough to get caught' or were the grassed up by another company looking at VW's increasing domination of world markets and their own models sliding down the sales scales? I'm sure other manufacturers look very closely at how VW engineer their cars and program their electronics, and whilst looking very closely at the electronics they'd suddenly see little things hidden away just out of view. Even a re-mapper that was struggling a bit with TD1 scares might think "how ironic" and put the flare up...
And what better place to do it than in the Land of the litigious Free?
Not that i'm cynical or anything.
It's funny though, only recently I was thinking back to the 80's when I first got into VW's when a neighbour bought a mk1 GTI Campaign new (I was still at school btw!) Volkswagen was very much a niche brand in most countries and now they're probably right up there at the top of the sales charts all over the world. I sat there and thought about how car manufacturers have their heyday and then something brings them off the boil, so I wondered with all the ever increasing amount of interesting products across the entire VW group spectrum what would make the inevitable happen and the wheels fall off their wagon (Wagen).
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out over the next few years.
Could be a good time to buy VW shares in fact.
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