>If VW acted in bad faith and degraded the guarenteed performance Um... That is exactly what they did. They falsified their emission test results. The car you

>If VW acted in bad faith and degraded the guarenteed performance Um... That is exactly what they did. They falsified their emission test results. The car you are driving is NOT the same as the one that passed the tests. The fact that it was possible to deceive the tests does not change the fact that they were blatantly and illegally falsifying them. The performance of the vehicles when they pass the proper regulations is likely to be significantly lower than the advertised performance, because the LIED about the their emissions.