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Old 09-25-2015, 08:51 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by niky View Post
VW was quite honest about TDI fuel economy.

Unfortunately, they sacrificed real world emissions to ensure they kept those headline figures.

Everyone else has had to downgrade their economy OR add an expensive urea-injection system (or both) to meet US NOx regulations.
The engineers at VW's competitors, after "burning the midnight oil" for so long trying to figure out why they are failing where VW "succeeded" probably figured out what VW did and tipped off the govt.
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