I am real curious whatever led them to believe they wouldn't get caught.... I mean, seriously, it's not like we don't have a boatload of places that test on a regular basis... not to mention companies that specialize in optimizing someone elses programming. They *should* have known it was only a matter of time before they were caught... What did they expect to happen? The EPA to just shrug their shoulders and say: "Well, that was certainly creative."??

 

No I do not collect caskets. I just worked at a factory where I built them.

Yes, I put it in an upstairs bedroom in my home for a few years. I lived alone and no one could stop me from putting it up there.

And no, I do not still have the casket. It went in the big divorce bankruptcy sale shortly after my wife left.

I was only actually married for 6 months and in that time she spent everything I had saved and much more. Back then all debts were paid by the former husband. She sailed away debt free.

It was not a very good time in my life.

That's why I decided to move to Iowa, figured I needed to be out of rifle range before I did the right thing and made the world a better place and spent the rest of my life in prison.

 

Isn't VW's motto, "Truth in Engineerinig"???

 

Well, VW is so big that US customers only account for 6% total sales. I think the thing that really hit hard was how fast the European countries jumped on their a$$es.

Interestingly, China is where most VW/Audi/Porsche are sold. I'm waiting for China to offer to buy up cars at deep discounts. There are almost no emission laws there...



tired old man: I feel for you bro'. I was basically setup to retire at 55 (just 5 years from now) until I had a messy divorce. She got the profits from selling the house and a huge lump sum then came back after I sold my business and got half of that. Now 2/3 of my retirement is gone and I'll likely be working til the day I drop dead...

 

There is all kinds of faux outrage about the VW issue on The Samba, complete with wailing and gnashing of teeth fueled by rumor and conjecture. Nothing has been stated as to how this issue will or should be resolved, but a bunch of armchair lawyers are yammering on about how the cars will be forcibly reflashed, VW will be forced out of business, and - this one is the best - how them hippy libruls are going to force everyone to drive electric cars.

Anyway, this emissions cheating has happened before:
Emissions defeat devices well known to be wrong, but pressures remain

 

Ok, who gets this? If you don't you're probably under 30...

 

yeah I got that! "its a twister! Its a twister!" Well what there chasin' ..........

survey says?

 

2500 long bed.

 

No man, its a transformer, cant tell if its autobot or decpticon tho, need my bifocals

 

Just read an article stating the worlds 15 largest cargo ships emit the same amount of pollution as all the cars in the world.