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Aftershock fears for the symbol 'Made in Germany', following VW' scandal
Cars and the environment are two things that Germany cares so deeply about that they form part of the national character. So Germans are shocked to discover that for years the country's mightiest car manufacturer Volkswagen has been rigging environmental tests for diesel emissions in the US. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAny Honest EUians anywhere in that forsaken continent?
Sep 24th, 2015 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The mistake was to cover up the nonsense that is the California EPA requirements, they are ridiculous.
Sep 24th, 2015 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0VW should have demonstrated that a state of the art diesel could not get down to these levels and still perform as the customer demanded. The problem does not rest with the car but with the stupidity of the demands.
Any manufacturer “passing” these levels should be made to carry out the same test that the so called 'experts' did and see how that goes. It will fail by the same or greater margins
Does anybody really think that a diesel engine running at 3,000 rev/min on NO LOAD is the way to test them?
The fuel injection system will have minimised the actual fuel flow to restrict the engine to 3,ooo rev/min. In that it will have functioned as intended but what it cannot do is shove the same amount of fuel into the engine that the car would use on the road at 3,000 rev/min because it would over-speed and probably cause irreparable damage.
The two 'experts' only found this out when the actually drove the car with analytical equipment running. It shocked them!
Ha, ha, ha.
Define 'forsaken'.
Sep 25th, 2015 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0C'mon, surely that is not outside of your intellectual ability?
Forsaken.... as in “no values, no morals, no uprightness”.
Sep 25th, 2015 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0In that sense, forsaken for about 3000 years just about.
@4
Sep 25th, 2015 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0But surely you are issued from the same ? The same people?
PS: 3000 years ago, Britons lived in adobe-huts, just like you now... The only difference is that you have access to 2 British creations. Electricity and the WWW.
enjoy!
Electricity was invented by the Brits??
Sep 25th, 2015 - 01:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Really?
I thought it was just a force of nature. So I guess Newton invented Gravity.
bahahahahaha.... Anglos will be Anglos.
Electricity, as you understand it now. Not as it was when you still worshipped the Sky-Gods.
Sep 25th, 2015 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0And tell me who built the WWW.
Just like we built your railways.. We didn't invent steam, or transport, we just educated you. We did the hard work.
Obviously, if you wish to abuse such knowledge, that is your problem.
PS: please explain;
1) how you are aware of Newton?
2) what has Newton done to expand your knowledge of the physical World?
3) why you are grateful to that Briton?
Europe is going down the drain...
Sep 25th, 2015 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Putin is showing who's the boss.
Merkel is in damage control mode.
Refugees are flooding.
And ilsen, ilsen is still inventing electricity...
Hahahahaha
What else did you invent, ilsen?
Hahahahahaha
#8
Sep 25th, 2015 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If Europe is going down the drain, you can tell us what it will be like as you obviously have reached the nadir in your socialist/bolivarian paradise wherever that is..
Russia is screwed and drifting back to serfdom thanks to the new Czar....more right wing than any European government.
Of course Merkel is in trouble for inviting all and sundry to come and settle. Maybe she should have asked the German people.
Europe must be a shit place considering that millions wish to come and settle there.
Don't confuse the need to leave ones home for a wish to be your neighbour...
Sep 25th, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#10
Sep 26th, 2015 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'M NOT....YOU ARE.
Stevie, Fuck Off you sad bed-wetting Cunt!
Sep 28th, 2015 - 02:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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