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Originally Posted by Joeggernaut
The EPA should just take a few random cars from the manufacturer and test themselves.
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As the test procedures are laid out, all companies engineer their vehicles to pass the mandated tests as good as they can.
When real-life driving conditions don't sort of match the test conditions, you can get severe discrepancies.
While many can match EPA numbers, most people here in Europe won't match their car's NEDC numbers.
That's not because they drive with even less concern that the Yanks or idle even more - quite on the contrary, with $8 gas and diesel ... - it's simply because the NEDC test is a far cry from reality.