Volkswagon

[Lazarus Short]

The play on German nationalism and pride is what allowed Hitler to come to power....

...or was it the terms of the Versailles Treaty?

 

[laatsch55]

The treaty set the other things in motion certainly...

 

[fitz43]

I myself am inclined to give them an award for ingenuity....I would do the same thing to pass an emissions test if I could.

Several heavy-duty diesel engine manufacturers, including Caterpillar, Detroit Diesel and Volvo, were found guilty of using the devices in 1998 and settled with the EPA.

 

[laatsch55]

The I would award them also Doug.

 

[Bob Boyer]

Living in the city with VW's only American assembly plant, which is scheduled to get a second line for a little SUV/Crossover thingy to go with the Passats, I can say the local politicos' asses are drawn so tight you couldn't put a toothpick up 'em with a sledgehammer. Sad part about this is what could happen to the assembly folks who probably had nothing to do with the scam. There's several thousand jobs at stake here.

 

[BubbaH]

the local politicos' asses are drawn so tight you couldn't put a toothpick up 'em with a sledgehammer.

That made me laugh.

 

[stuwee]

Kudo's to VW!!!! They will overcome this BS charge, so they cheated?? Who cares! California has worse problems than pollution right now (put some money into de-salianation folks) You need water? It's just off shore!

I'm sick of these whiny ass MF's pissin' an moanin' "I paid all this money for a clean car, and it's not" !!! Boo, freakin' Hoo!!

 

[orange]

All of those original Beetles the hippie crowd dug weren't much cleaner running around Los Distrito Federal Y Ciudad Tijuana as taxicabs.