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Kerrmudgeon 11-20-2015 4:38pm

Volkswagen in more deep doo doo......
 
Turns out they've been cheating on all their 3 cylinder diesels since 2009! Fines could be up to 37K$ per car!!!
They've halted all sales of cars with that engine, and that will set them back a cool BILLION DOLLARS. Yikes!
They also halted ramping up for a production electric car due to the losses.

boracayjohnny 11-20-2015 4:43pm

VW disappearing would take a lot since they are the parent of many companies.

Stangkiller 11-20-2015 4:53pm

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Originally Posted by boracayjohnny (Post 1426028)
VW disappearing would take a lot since they are the parent of many companies.

Will we start to see the sale of some of those companies?

mrvette 11-20-2015 5:21pm

I lost ALL respect for any european car back in the '60's yet, my much older sis/hubby had a VW bug.....talk about hard to drive?? ill handling, underpowered??? then of course another friend had a French Citroen.....OMG, even worse......then to look at the prices those Wash DC liberals would PAY for that shit??? so when VW finally bites the bullet, that is fine by me, maybe they unemploy a few islamics and save Germany.....:dance::D

boracayjohnny 11-20-2015 5:34pm

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Originally Posted by Stangkiller (Post 1426036)
Will we start to see the sale of some of those companies?

Maybe, I know I'd give 'em $100 for Bugatti.

Stangkiller 11-20-2015 5:37pm

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Originally Posted by boracayjohnny (Post 1426056)
Maybe, I know I'd give 'em $100 for Bugatti.

They just sold their portion Suzuki shortly before this mess..I could see Duccaiti and Bentley pretty easily. Lambo perhaps, although they're sharing with Audi now.

Shrike6 11-20-2015 5:55pm

I heard their diesel 6 cyl. engines are also borked.

Steve Austin 11-20-2015 6:30pm

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Originally Posted by mrvette (Post 1426049)
I lost ALL respect for any european car back in the '60's yet, my much older sis/hubby had a VW bug.....talk about hard to drive?? ill handling, underpowered??? then of course another friend had a French Citroen.....OMG, even worse......then to look at the prices those Wash DC liberals would PAY for that shit??? so when VW finally bites the bullet, that is fine by me, maybe they unemploy a few islamics and save Germany.....:dance::D

They build a lot of VWs in Tennessee. Not good for those people.

1911fool 11-21-2015 12:31am

We just bought a new car. I thought about buying a VW, just because of this. Anyone who would go this far to piss off a bunch of tree huggers is OK in my book.

mrvette 11-21-2015 8:21am

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Originally Posted by Steve Austin (Post 1426072)
They build a lot of VWs in Tennessee. Not good for those people.

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Originally Posted by 1911fool (Post 1426151)
We just bought a new car. I thought about buying a VW, just because of this. Anyone who would go this far to piss off a bunch of tree huggers is OK in my book.

I suspect it's just an assy plant, maybe GM/Ford can buy it up cheap.....

And I agree about the tree huggers comment.....if Trump can get in, maybe he can eliminate the EPA....:seasix::hurray:

Fasglas 11-21-2015 8:55am

Interesting findings.



69camfrk 11-21-2015 11:55am

Gene, if you ever owned a Citroen, we need to have a LONG talk!!!!:rofl:

ApexOversteer 11-21-2015 2:39pm

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Originally Posted by Stangkiller (Post 1426036)
Will we start to see the sale of some of those companies?

SHHHHHHH! Ixnay on the ellingsay amborghinilay!

ApexOversteer 11-21-2015 2:43pm

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Originally Posted by Stangkiller (Post 1426058)
They just sold their portion Suzuki shortly before this mess..I could see Duccaiti and Bentley pretty easily. Lambo perhaps, although they're sharing with Audi now.

Seriously man... fkin' SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


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