Doing more research on this it seems like the accusations were the result of a game of news article telephone rather than the actual accusations, though I did f

Doing more research on this it seems like the accusations were the result of a game of news article telephone rather than the actual accusations, though I did find an article[0] that cites a german article[1] that references price control. As for the fuel market, I don't think its exactly a healthy supply/demand system either due to the necessity of car ownership in certain parts of the world; hence why OPEC is able to fuck with the market so much. It's better in that a car can use fuel from multiple sources though, where in the case of these emissions systems it seems you can only use a certain mixture for their cars, who's patent is owned by a german automobile interest group. [0] https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vw-daimler-colluded-to-fix-diesel-system-prices-report-alleges/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vw-daimler-colluded-t... [1] http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/vw-bmw-daimler-aktienkurse-brechen-nach-kartellverdacht-ein-a-1159117.html http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/vw-bmw-daimler-...