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Offline Chris_

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Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« on: September 22, 2015, 09:36:19 AM »
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VW and Audi TDI Owners: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis

Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that Volkswagen products with 2.0-liter TDI engines were supplemented with “a sophisticated software algorithm” that could detect the precise moment when your car was being tested for emissions. When emissions tests were underway, the software would force the engine into a mode that produced the requisite amount of emissions, but under normal driving conditions, the speculation is that that fantastic torque that TDI-equipped Volkswagens are able to produce might be seriously limited. “The effectiveness of these vehicles’ pollution emissions control devices is greatly reduced during all normal driving situations,” the EPA noted.
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So VW beat the EPA at their own game and now Uncle Sugar is pissed and wants his pound of flesh.

The whole episode makes me laugh.  **** the EPA.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2015, 04:57:20 PM »
It would be a great week to buy VW stock.  They got badly hammered but are certain to bounce back.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2015, 04:58:45 PM »
I should have bought Ford stock when it was under $2.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2015, 09:21:52 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 22, 2015, 04:57:20 PM
It would be a great week to buy VW stock.  They got badly hammered but are certain to bounce back.


I like the way you are thinking.
I'm half tempted to take your advice.


Quote from: Chris_ on September 22, 2015, 04:58:45 PM
I should have bought Ford stock when it was under $2.

I'm glad you didn't tell me at the time you were considering it.
Right now we would both be fuming.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2015, 10:03:12 PM »
Pretty clever on VW's part.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2015, 11:08:48 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on September 22, 2015, 10:03:12 PM
Pretty clever on VW's part.

Not really. I heard that American car makers have done the same thing through different methods in the past, but their fines were only in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, not millions.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2015, 11:18:17 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 22, 2015, 11:08:48 PM
Not really. I heard that American car makers have done the same thing through different methods in the past, but their fines were only in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, not millions.

In a way, it is because this had been going on since 2009.

I do not know much about the American car situation. Be interested in looking into that.
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Re: Your Guide to Volkswagen’s TDI Crisis
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2015, 10:05:31 AM »
Quote from: obumazombie on September 22, 2015, 09:21:52 PM

I like the way you are thinking.
I'm half tempted to take your advice.


I'm glad you didn't tell me at the time you were considering it.
Right now we would both be fuming.

Just my own personal opinion, but I did mean 'Week' and not 'Day.'  I think most of the damage will have been done by COB today and a lot of reassessment  will occur over the coming weekend, I think Friday is probably the day to jump if you're going to do that.  I'm not myself, right now my loose cash is tied up in cattle and helping one of my kids purchase a home.
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