Volkswagen - What's got into you???

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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Latest:

--- Winterkorn resigns.

--- The Green Party claims, that the German Government was informed about the manipulations. If this would be true, it would be MEGA COOL!

Harman,

What is the news regarding VW diesels in Germany? I heard that VW played the same trick on German regulators.

When I learned of this situation in the U.S. I gave the VW software development team the benefit of the doubt. I thought maybe they turned off emission control for a rare and challenging diesel condition. What that might be I cannot guess. I am not an expert in diesel combustion characteristics.

Instead it looks more like someone made a decision to flip the middle finger to regulatory effort. That behavior cannot be treated lightly. Billions in fines sounds reasonable in such a case.

What will be interesting is if VW engineers did not know of the software. That is possible with modern black-box treatment of suppliers. The guilty party might be sitting at Bosch, or Continental, or ?

Interesting problem for Germany. In the U.S. we have bigger problems IMO. We still have too many roads. Funding them is where we fight day-to-day.

I enjoy chatting with you.