I’ll take their first foray into this business.

This Ronda Rousey lookin broad. Sticker shock that’ll kill you.

I’m with this guy. Point and laugh.

And I agree, my hope would be that their next gen of powertrains they do right the first time, rather than needing a redesign 6 years Post SOP. Any of the current engines are a lost cause, but the development of the next engine shouldn’t be any more expensive. All engines need calibration work, all diesel engines are…

My real hope for a recovery would be doubling down on diesel powertrains. Yes we fucked up, but now we’re commited to making this work and now the EPA has gone over our work with a fine toothed comb. They need to prove it can be done legitimately without cutting corners. Really if they abandon the diesel market for…

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This ought to be cheap to replace when it gets chewed up over time.

I unfriend you. That’s not how this works, thats not how any of this works.

They aren’t turned off, they are used at a lower duty cycle in day to day driving currently than they are when on the dyno scenario. Similar confusion to how the EPA keeps calling this a “Defeat Device” no its not a device/module/mechanism of any sort, its lines of code in the ecm.

As a fellow diesel owner and one that is in the market for upgrading his older 01 TDI, I’d probably purposely seek out somebody who hasn’t taken the car in for the recall, and I might even pay a premium for it. Lower maintenance costs (even though I do all my own, I can’t just not put consumables in the car) and lower…

EGR out of both systems is used every ignition cycle, and on the low pressure one it is used pretty heavily. EGR gases are used to cool the combustion reaction within the cylinder thus limiting the NOx emissions out of the vehicle. (in theory anyway) If you run with no EGR at all the tailpipe emissions for NOx are way…

Ah damn the man. Well at least I know that configuration is out there in case I ever get the bug to do an engine swap.

Wait wait wait wait, I can get a DIESEL TT? Shut your whore mouth.

Actually I think I prefer oil ocean instead.

Why is this so tall? it looks like its going to tip over going straight down the road.

This may come as a shock to people on here, but this actually happens. EPA doesn’t buy cars, but the OE’s need to demonstrate compliance on vehicles that have been in service. The OE’s generally contract this work out to some place like Roush that does dyno testing, they’ll make sure the vehicle is OBD-II healthy, no…

The vehicles are compliant when doing emissions testing now because of the additional code they have programmed in. The big question is what will happen to the cars when they have to run that code full time and not just when testing emissions? Does it make the vehicles noticably slower? Do the vehicles get abysmal…

I just got back from traveling to Brazil several times over the summer. The troller is so much awesome rolled into one vehicle its hard to comprehend. Panel gaps? Big enough for a whole deck of cards. Who cares? Nobody, because these are badass.

There are already a ton of submissions but i have to get this one in here... we may have to choose like 10 cars per decade that didn’t make it into production.....