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Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive (arstechnica.com)
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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

brand-wide emissions cheating scandal

To be fair, didn't it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

At least in North America I think they were the only brand selling passenger vehicles diesel engines.

[–] Goronmon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.

Which other manufacturers were cheating?

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 2 points 11 months ago

Basically all of them.

But this is what happen when you have rules set by people that think they can ignore physical laws and somehow make it work.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, their reputation for having expensive parts fail right after the odometer ticked past the number on the warranty was earned long before dieselgate.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Dieselgate really worked out for me. The car hadn't started to break down yet and we were just starting to need a minivan when it all came out.