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VW says emission scandal investigations to take months

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This is a tried-and-true strategy known as "waiting for the outrage to die down."

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It calls unfair competition by VW. VW said its TDI clean Diesel engine was lower emission than Toyota Petrol Hybrid car. It's true, the crime can't hide forever.

VW needs to sort it sooner rather than later because it will hurt investors' pocket.

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I see VW begging Toyota for their fuel Cell technology waving a white flag on Diesel in the coming months.

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http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/vw-emissions-defeat-device-isnt-first ((((Humbly submitted for your perusal

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I cannot believe the EPA is going so easy on them. What happened? I would think that if you catch someone red handed and then get a confession out of them that they knew that they were breaking the law years ago and did nothing, well... the clock started ticking on punitive damages years ago. I expected daily penalties.

With all of the big talk we get from environmental groups about clean air and corporate responsibility, one would think that this would attract a lot more vitriol, but I guess not. VW gets big points for its PR efforts I guess.

Another wrinkle to this issue might be that Europe has gone so far off the deep end to promote biodiesel that it can't turn back now and save face. Being green has become so much mantra and dogma that none dare call it conspiracy. Especially, admitting that Toyota's vision of the hybrid was right all along, well, that might just be too bitter and expensive a pill to swallow. Biofuels, diesel for passenger use, ... whole branches of research efforts have been called into question.

By the way, the link from RobertChase above is "nice," but it refers to events of the last century. In terms of regulation, that was eons ago.

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Let's predict how many will go to jail for this: ummmmmmmm, zero?

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Burning Bush. It is not as easy as you seen on VW scandal. Once your customers have left because of dishonesty and than majority of customers will not be coming back to VW and AUDI. They will buy Hybrid car from BMW, Mercedes or Lexus if they are looking for fuel economy and environment friendly car.

VW has bad history of delaying recalling for its cars. Now VW has misled its customers and lying to Authority by cheating with emission defeat device installing its cars. VW reputation history was not good.

I believe other rival Car Companies have knew VW emission cheating before authority found out. Even ordinary drivers who drove VW TDI engine car can be noticed by amount of fuel consuming in the car. If car was using more fuel than Company's claimed and then that Company was misleading on fuel consuming. VW TDI Diesel Car was emitting up to 40% more emit than it was allowed. So fuel consuming in the car will be far too high than Company was claimed. It will costs extra over $ 1,500 annually to Car owner.

Car Company likes Toyota may have looked at VW TDI Diesel clean engine car when VW claimed its TDI Diesel clean engine was less emission than Hybrid car. Toyota has silent about VW cheating but Toyota knew it. Also Mercedes and BMW must know about VW emission cheating scam. Any Car Company will look at its rival new and advance technology that claimed to be lower emission than Petrol Hybrid technology. That's why Mercedes and BMW approached Toyota for its Hybrid technology otherwise they will go to research for their own clean Diesel engine technology. Diesel engine cars are popular in Europe.

Hyundai has been caught for misleading fuel consuming in its car models. We will be heard from US authority about other Car companies' emission cheating scam soon.

If I have owned VW or AUDI TDI Diesel Engine car and then I'll ask VW to buy back my car regardless of how long I have owned it.

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