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The problem affects only diesel cars, and VW is the only company I've heard of selling a significant number of diesel passenger cars in the US.
by superuser2 11y ago
The problem affects only diesel cars, and VW is the only company I've heard of selling a significant number of diesel passenger cars in the US.
- harperlee 11y agoThere are other countries in the world, and in some of those countries, there are significant numbers of diesel passenger cars.
- happyscrappy 11y agoEuropean emission standards are lax, and I would imagine the rest of the world even laxer. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/no-cheating-needed-europe-s-lax-laws-make-diesel-tests-a-snap http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/no-cheatin...
- TylerE 11y agoLike anything it's a trade off. Emissions and efficiency are usually conflicting goals. Automakers are under a ton of strain right now to achieve BOTH, which is essentially impossible. The VW TDIs are some of the only vehicles to even get close to the efficiency that will be required in just a few years, regardless of emissions.
- happyscrappy 11y agoExcept that poor air quality has a severe impact on people.
- TylerE 11y agoPoor is relative. Even a "bad" car by current standards would have been considered extremely clean even 5 years ago.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoNo. The VWs in question would not have even passed 1981 CARB standards.
- harperlee 11y agoThere are other countries in the world, and in some of those countries, there are significant numbers of diesel passenger cars.
- durin42 11y agoFor what it's worth, Chevy is selling a diesel version of the Cruze in the US, and it has better performance numbers pretty much all around than the VW. I'm skeptical of the claims that this is "the end of clean diesel" as a result.
- rodgerd 11y agoMaybe you should be sceptical that Chevy are more honest than VW.