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Now we know why some of you can get such incredible fuel economy on long light steady throttle trips.
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Meanwhile, just a couple dozen of the container ships that ferry these little beauties around the world - along with our TVs and organic coconut oil and iPhones and DI2s and Rapha kits - puke out as much pollutants as all the world's cars combined.
Thank god our frugal consumer habits have left us complexly innocent in all this.
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I'm happy to leave the hack in place. I'll be doing all my future service at an independent.
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it's the times we live in.
lying and cheating are all-prevalent. politicians, athletes, car makers...it's a long list. |
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And massively contribute to air pollution? Are you being serious?
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Time to ROLL COAL in a Jetta !!!
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it's hardly massively polluting. Having to do an expensive service less often coupled with better performance is a modification I'd pay to do.
I drive a vehicle that gets over 40mpg, that's the entirety of the concession to the environment I'm currently prepared to make. If everyone in this country drove the most efficient car, it wouldn't make a dent compared to helping china get to where they give a ···· about their environment and stop polluting like it's 1950. Last edited by grawk; 09-19-2015 at 04:49 PM. |
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If I were to drive a car that gets 10mpg (which I don't, and I often commute by bike), I would still be way ahead of your concession. Sorry, but I am floored by your comment...and I am a skeptic when it comes to man-made climate change! |
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The standards were made to make it impractical to sell diesel passenger vehicles, rather than to do actual good. They were intended to favor gas/electric hybrids. I guarantee my tdi engine, as sold today, is a cleaner running engine than any gas vehicle per mile today, or any vehicle sold prior to 2012.
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How can the above two posters possibly know whether the assertions they make are true given that all we know is that the VW TDIs emit a range of pollutants much, much higher than the legal limit?
Looking at this another way, if all you have to do is get the update and reduce emissions by a factor of 10x to 40x, how could you possibly justify not doing it? Last edited by SlackMan; 09-19-2015 at 06:32 PM. |
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Because they put the change in the code to make the car perform better and more reliably. I'm not willing to make my car worse because some politicians want to make hybrid cars seem better.
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What am I missing? Last edited by SlackMan; 09-19-2015 at 06:47 PM. Reason: What am I missing? |
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Given that this is new information, I'd like to hear more facts before I take a super strong stance on this. It's nice to see more than one side, and a greater variety of definite facts and numbers, before raising the pitchforks...
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