again, two different agencies.

It’ll be hilarious if it’s just a copy paste routine that infests all their diesel software and they didn’t even realize was there:

The AW609 has been in development for well over a decade. After Bell, the co-maker of the V-22 Osprey, for which AW609 is based, dropped out of the program, Agusta Westland has continued with it.

“We’ll try to be very specific on Thursday but it goes beyond the 11,” Rosekind told reporters.

For non-fictional road trip parteners, a trip to the grocery store with this guy will end in a week long bender in Tijuana

The VERY BEST part of this is that VW owned the cheat right from the jump. GM would have said “blah blah, investigation, might be a unintentional software glitch, not deliberate, blah blah obfuscation” but not VW. “We cheated 11 million times and got away with it” “ Our engineers are without peer” Germans would rather…

but it’s possible the worst victims so far are the dealers

I can’t wait to hear Congress angrily pretend to know what they’re talking about in technical matters, since that’s how most such special hearings seem to go.

TL;DW

Good. Good. Let the pedantry flow through you.

This car was kind of a dog when it was new. It’s certainly no better now.

Back in 2004 my wife, then girlfriend, had finally been admitted to the NYS Bar and had her first legal gig. To celebrate she purchased a gently used Black 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix GT (When you ask about biggest POS you ever owned, I will write about the GP) to replace her 1990 Pontiac Transport (TranSport, TransPort…

That time I worked at Carmax and sold this loser a Range Rover with a Carmax warranty. We’re still laughing!

I’m sorry but that freeze frame made me lose it... I’m sure that was an terrible/frightening experience but it looks funny in the shot...

Imagine a large container filled to the brim with hundred dollar bills, set ablaze by a few barrels of diesel fuel that was casually poured all over it. That’s pretty much what’s happening right now at the Volkswagen Group.

My tinfoil-hat theory is that Piëch had a hand in it and saw this coming.

Okay, I definitely feel better now. Cheating was part of Old Volkswagen’s culture. You can’t punish New Volkswagen for the mistakes of Old Volkswagen, right?

it’s because CARB found that the SCR-equipped cars were reducing DEF dosing after the test cycle, causing NOx to rise and go out of compliance. So EPA is saying “We think all of your data is bullshit and we’re not letting you import any more diesel cars until we’re satisfied you’ve got your shit in order.”

Untruth in Engineering

I’m left wondering if the ‘stack of service records’ includes 6 grand for timing chains.