VW Emissions Claims

Mercdriver

I predict there will be winners, financially.  Lawyers.  

Highland76

AdrianC said:

Remember - VAG are NOT accused of cheating European tests.

They were found to be in breach of the US tests. It's three years since VAG were found by a US court to have breached the US testing protocol, and fined nearly $3bn.

The US tests had far, far stricter NOx levels than the European tests - and that's what the defeat device was designed to bypass. There was no deliberate effect on CO, which is what the UK VED was based upon. The US tests explicitly barred such devices, the European tests didn't. The "defeat device" was NOT in breach of the testing protocol for the European tests. It may have been in breach of the spirit of the tests, but it was not in breach of the letter of the protocols. The tests have since been heavily overhauled, and the standards applicable at the time have been superceded.

Remember - VAG were about the only manufacturer to even attempt to sell diesels in the US, because the US tests didn't differentiate between petrol and diesel NOx emissions, making it almost impossible for diesels to pass. At the time (Euro5), European limits allowed diesels to emit 3x the NOx levels of petrols. US figures were around the same as the Euro petrol figures.

Spot on. I wonder if the OP is an avid Daily Mail reader?