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In the UK cars are taxed according to their emissions - will VW have to foot the bill for the problems this will cause their customers?
by bshimmin 11y ago
In the UK cars are taxed according to their emissions - will VW have to foot the bill for the problems this will cause their customers?
- jacquesm 11y agoSince this is clearly malicious intent on the part of VW that the customers if and when presented with a bill from Her Majesty's collection agency will be in an excellent position to pass the buck to VW. After all it's in every advertisement they've ever made about these vehicles. VW is in a world of trouble. This saddens me because our fleet has both a VW caravelle and a VW up, neither of which are affected but VW has been an excellent supplier for me to date and I'm seriously disappointed that they would stoop this low. Even if this order did not come from the top (which one would hope) it screams lack of oversight and lack of independent in-house verification.
- ctz 11y agoThey're taxed according to CO2 emissions rather than NOx (which is measured for European and Californian emissions requirements, and the subject of this dishonesty). There's no reason the same method couldn't be used to falsify CO2 emissions (and therefore VED band) too though!
- nsnick 11y agoI think if CO2 emissions were being gamed, we would see that the gasoline models were also affected.