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This VW Diesel Scandal Is Much Worse Than a Recall
(Ezra Dyer)
“Everyone wondered how VW met emissions standards while foregoing urea injection. As it turns out, they didn’t. It wasn’t magical German engineering. Just plain old fraud.”
“The intentionality behind the deceit makes this situation different from even a huge-scale recall. This isn’t a story about a part that was made one cent cheaper than it should’ve been, where a car company cut a corner to save a little cash. It’s about a huge corporation eying the rulebook and deciding there’s a competitive advantage in violating the Clean Air Act. Incompetence is one thing, but calculated mendacity is quite another.
It’s too bad. That Golf SportWagen TDI is a punchy, fun car. It’s got great fuel economy, tons of torque and a bargain price. But when something seems a little too good to be true, maybe that’s because it is.”
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