This cat in 5 years:

1. That vw as a whole knew about these cheats and was trumping up the diesels in spite of this, playing us all for chumps

As an engineer, beating the regulations with a software cheat is depressing. It’s like being pulled from the big game because pressure makes you choke. If you team designs something that is close but not quite, it makes you work harder, think of something totally different. If anyone ever said we can program…

Thank you! As HammerheadFistpunch mentioned, VW just crossed a line. But it’s not “just” a line. That’s a pretty fucking big line! Manufacturers also game crash tests, but at least the safety features are on the car when they’re sold to you. They don’t disable the safety features under normal operation, which is…

as i noted, tongue planted firmly in cheek, so no, i don’t agree with anything i said there

Your exactly right but I suspect that your going to get alot of heat for this. Thats why I said it somehow seems worse than Ford or GM because of that fact that VW was touting their engines as clean on any form of advertising they could especially on their website, but all the while they were in fact dirty as fuck.

So you have no problem with VW loudly proclaiming how awesome they are all while sticking it to you and yours?

People ignoring basic safety in the case of GM and Ford are dramatically different than VW flipping off Americans and then making a commercial praising themselves for how awesome they are. Not keeping enough air in your tires is a stupid human issue. Not wearing seat belts, driving three times the speed limit and…

not tot this degree, this is pissing on our heads and telling us that its raining

IG Farben actually designed mobile gassing vans where the exhaust was routed into a box. These were used as test beds, but found to be too inefficient. That’s when the decision to use Zyklon B at fixed gassing facilities was made.

Thank you for great article. Please write something similar about how Porsche and Piech family got to control that. How these families coexist in love/hate. There is more to it. And there are ties to before de-nazified German leaders.

Everything you’ve written is technically true, albeit, somewhat labored in an attempt to make your point. The question still remains... if the Nazi Party had never existed, would Volkswagen exist? I think not.