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minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·10 months ago brand-wide emissions cheating scandal To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.
minus-squaren2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 months agoAt least in North America I think they were the only brand selling passenger vehicles diesel engines.
minus-squareGoronmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months ago To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first. Which other manufacturers were cheating?
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal Check the “Other manufacturers” heading.
minus-squaregian @lemmy.grys.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoBasically all of them. But this is what happen when you have rules set by people that think they can ignore physical laws and somehow make it work.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoTo be fair, their reputation for having expensive parts fail right after the odometer ticked past the number on the warranty was earned long before dieselgate.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoDieselgate really worked out for me. The car hadn’t started to break down yet and we were just starting to need a minivan when it all came out.
To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.
At least in North America I think they were the only brand selling passenger vehicles diesel engines.
Which other manufacturers were cheating?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Check the “Other manufacturers” heading.
Basically all of them.
But this is what happen when you have rules set by people that think they can ignore physical laws and somehow make it work.
To be fair, their reputation for having expensive parts fail right after the odometer ticked past the number on the warranty was earned long before dieselgate.
Dieselgate really worked out for me. The car hadn’t started to break down yet and we were just starting to need a minivan when it all came out.