Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:33 am by strop
All we ever heard was 'up to 40 times advertised', assuming advertised meant 'complies with US EPA emission standards'. And of course remembering that diesels don't pose much of a problem with CO2 i.e. greenhouse gases, it's NOx i.e. local smog and pollution.
I wonder what the market effect is going to be. Diesels will probably cop a bit of a blow, but at least in Australia, diesel isn't a big sector of the market and the VW Golf is by far the most popular car among any demographic that can afford it, including rich people, who aren't going to feel bothered by this issue at all. As for the 80000+ vehicles that do run the cheat, we still don't even know what that means over here. Australia's not particularly robust when it comes to climate consciousness :\