Whoa whoa whoa there, Mr. Rockefeller. I know you’re going for hyperbole but a $600 suit? C’mon, make it believable. No one’s ever paid that much for a suit.

My guess is very mandatory. Further I suspect the EPA/Customs requires the fix be very difficult to retrograde so everyone won’t run to their APR dealer and get a tune to remove the fix.

Wrong. The EPA could tell Customs the cars were illegally imported. Customs tells the FBI to impound all the cars. The FBI could create a BOLO for every TDI with instructions to impound them. Extreme? Yes, but its possible. They aren’t doing that because it will irreparably harm half a million Americans more than it…

The EPA wouldn’t get the media attention and subsequent push for more funding to “deal with this issue” for cracking down a a few weird Japanese cars. Now they have a half million cars to figure out what to do with, it’s much less likely that the EPA will sweep this under the rug.

ironically enough i just did the chain service on my 06 VR6 and it has been great up until the day this dieselgate started, then the check engine light came on. VW conspiracy.

No one (outside of VW engineers) knows what’s going to take a hit - MPG, power, parts, or some combination. From the theories proposed on what the ECMs did when on the dyno (reduced fuel flow = lower combustion temps = lower NOx), I would think engine power would be reduced. Would reduced fuel flow - or whatever the…

x dollars and 10x that in cancer treatment

In all honesty, how much did it cost you? And how would you say your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for it stacks up to other cars whose estimated TCOs are posted online?

Do we actually know this will be a “power sucking fix?” Personally, I'm more worried about the health and well being of the emissions system since we all know that VW doesn't make the most long lived emissions parts to begin with.

The interstate commerce clause gives the Feds broad powers. They could certainly do this if they wanted to.

Should individual owners ignore VW’s recall campaign, I wouldn’t put it past the Feds to seize and crush individual cars, just to make the point.

It’s possible that these VW TDIs will become more popular in areas without emissions testing, due to yuppies offloading them prior to getting the power-sucking fix. but there’s a BIG difference between older diesels that meet emissions laws for the year they were manufactured, and these VWs that don’t. They are…

The potential argument is that these vehicles were imported under false pretense, and are retroactively illegal to import.

Sweet mods yo. I wish I could make my car shoot out photoshops.

don’t fall for that trap. cheap vw = money pit.

If it’s a federally mandated fix, they could flag the VIN of unmodified vehicles and prevent new registration or renewal in states that are less stringent.

Jeff Gordon was given a special car to run at the 1997 Nascar All-Star Race. It wore a Jurassic Park paint scheme, but its name comes from its chassis designer, Rex Stump, who built it specifically for this one race. The car had a custom suspension setup, aerodynamically shaped floor pan, and totally redesigned…

Penske/Donohue Camaro, “The Lightweight”

The late-80’s-era Cadillac “A/C cheat”. The EPA didn’t require OEMs to engage the A/C during tests, so GM calibrated the PCM to idle lean during with the climate control off, knowing that almost everyone would actually just set the climate control to “AUTO”. Emissions under normal operation were triple what they were…

Using this “Light-truck” to cheat CAFE