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Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by yunohn »

captainmuon wrote: post #47
TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How isn't their brand tarnished around the world? Besides the emissions scandal, their vehicles are just expensive and difficult to maintain. I've got a diesel VW Jetta. It has been nothing but a money pit. I'm in the US for reference.

A friend in Germany said he trusts VW even more after the scandal, because it showed their engineering cleverness. And also because they cared for their customers and gave them even better performance than the government allowed. In general, VW has a good, somewhat inflated reputation in Germany + parts of EU. In my experience, the cars are quite solid and reliable, albeit considered a bit boring. But you can also bu…

>> better performance than the government allowed

My understanding was that this performance came at the expense of more pollution, which is what the gov is regulating?

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by josho »

nicholassmith wrote: post #36

This is what happens in a meeting when someone says "there are no bad ideas". This is the sort of three beer spitballing that normally you come up with as a gag and yet they're committing to it, and whilst it's US only the likelihood is they'll do some aggressive product placement and get some global recognition around it.

I felt this way when Apple removed ‘Computer’ from their name. Years later we see that it wasn’t just a name change but alignment to their company strategy.

I’m cautiously optimistic that Volkswagen is signaling a similar change in their mission and leadership’s intent to change.

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Post by ajarmst »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #11
oblio wrote: post #2

This is funny, yet ridiculous :-)) Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it. I imagine it's going to be the only place they'll do it.

How isn't their brand tarnished around the world? Besides the emissions scandal, their vehicles are just expensive and difficult to maintain. I've got a diesel VW Jetta. It has been nothing but a money pit. I'm in the US for reference.

I'm not sure it remains possible to 'tarnish' a brand when the general public have the attention span of a weasel on crack.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by cyral »

agrafix wrote: post #4

Hmm did they release their April 1 joke too early by mistake?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22357166/volkswagen-name-...

> The proximity of the name change to April Fool’s Day initially raised suspicions that it was just a joke. But VW insists that it’s a real thing, so here we are.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by mikece »

AYBABTME wrote: post #49
mikece wrote: post #42

What is the relative difference in emissions between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car that is recharged by power from a coal-burning plant?

Why do you find it useful to bring up this trope which is only tangentially related to the post?

If WV's point is that they are emphasizing their they make electrical cars, and the assumption is that those are better for the environment than all other cars, then it's fair to question that assumption. If 90%+ of our power came from zero-carbon sources like nuclear then it would be a fair point but we're a LONG way from that.
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