What blows my mind is that the emission controls were there and workable.  It's just that they only got turned on when the vehicle was being tested.  All for a few more MPG.

On 03/18/16, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) wrote:

So VW was cheating the system way back them even ?
! lol.

Their modern diesel emissions cheating perhaps didn't even seem like
that big a deal to VW perhaps.
That's flat illegal ....a manufacturer telling the gov a vehicle is one
thing, when it's really not.
CARB and other agencies take a very dim view of such shenanigans.

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