« Reply #22 on: 23 September 2015, 15:42 »
CO2 emission regulations are such a hypocritical waste of time. The car corporations themselves are hardly resourcefully efficient.
My thoughts exactly.
And millions of other people too no doubt, but common sense and legislation very rarely go hand in hand.
The jokes and 'panic' over VW resale prices started in work yesterday and will be in full swing no doubt for a while so I'll be wearing my hard hat despite driving a petrol engined car (that most people think is a Diesel anyway).
I wonder how the footfall into VW dealerships will drop away worldwide during the initial panic and internet fuelled hysteria stages ramp up to full steam.
This autumn and winter could be a good time to buy a new or used VW vehicle and it will be interesting to see if the generally ignorant public will just see the
VW part of it and ignore the other VW bands whose sales might not be so adversely affected just yet.
A nice political deflection from the massive migrant crisis for European politicians anyway.
Lots of coverage of why VW were caught with their trousers down but still nothing on why the flag went up in the first place, if the cars were programmed to bypass any random inspections then who decided to test one or more in a different way and why?
Were VW grassed up?
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