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We sold our VW and bought a Model 3. We had a serious look at VW’s EV lineup for my wife’s next car though. All manufacturers with a genuine EV programme have my support.
the VW ID4 is a great family car, imo its worth the wait.
A few years ago I had to spend ~$10k to replace all the roof seals and repair damage after water leaked into the interior. I bought the vehicle new and diligently lube the seals according to the owners manual.
Last month my girlfriend found a piece of a suspension spring that broke off. I took it into the dealer, who replaced the front springs and shocks. I specifically asked them to check the rear ones, which they said were fine. Also asked about any undercarriage rust, which they said wasn't bad, and in line with what they'd expect for a 10 year old car.
Two weeks later this larger chunk of a rear spring fell off while I was driving:
I've had other minor issues. eg. Ever since the new seals were installed, one window sometimes takes multiple tries to close right, despite several attempts to correct.
It's a fun little car and the Service department has been very accommodating, but all in all the money I've spent on repairs could easily have paid the bump to buy the BMW hardtop instead.
After the last incident I bought a Toyota RAV4 with green Consumer Reports reliability ratings across the board. VW has a lot to prove if they want me back as a customer.
I previously owned a VW, but swore on my life that I'd never buy another one after the emissions cheating scandal. There are plenty of reasons why a VW likely wont be my next choice, but I'm softening my stance a bit. What they did was absolutely reprehensible, but I later learned that the more accurate story is that they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later fo…
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Maybe they grew tired of Americans pronouncing it wrong (most V are still pronounced as F, Vettel, Volkswagen etc.) ;-) Edit: This German apologizes for an attempt at a humorous / sarcastic comment and will revert to work-machine state at once. Beep boop.
Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
If you argued that you can't pronounce 'Wagen' as the Germans do ("'vaːɡn̩", according to Wikipedia), that would be a different thing. But we're not talking about that.
Indeed, the word, i.e. folk, you are not willing to pronounce happen to exist in English as well and can mean the same (or very similar) thing. "Volk" (i.e. "wolk") OTOH doesn't mean anything in either languages. (It does mean wolf in Russian, though ;) )
People's car or you could say "Folk's Wagon" (or maybe "Folks' Wagon"). Yeah, weird choice of words and won't exactly sound like it was German but close enough, kind of meaningful and nothing you couldn't pronounce. Just remember to write is as VolksWagen.
Hmm did they release their April 1 joke too early by mistake?
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More recently, he has been released on parole after roughly half his term served.[1] Interestingly, the article says: In Germany, inmates can be released after serving two thirds of their term. Parole after only half of the time is rare, but can be granted to first time offenders who demonstrated good behavior and are deemed unlikely to commit crimes in the future. I don't doubt he exhibited good behavior. I'm not su…
It is still quite likely he won't be repeating the mistake though. Prison is something else than just money.
He also likely knows a lot about how many of his superiors were in the loop on this, so I assume he was well compensated for his inconvenience.
I previously owned a VW, but swore on my life that I'd never buy another one after the emissions cheating scandal. There are plenty of reasons why a VW likely wont be my next choice, but I'm softening my stance a bit. What they did was absolutely reprehensible, but I later learned that the more accurate story is that they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later fo…
Regardless of what you think they did was right or wrong, it was pretty clever.
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What about it? No vehicle will do it from the factory, so I don't see how it's relevant here. It's the result of running a diesel massively, massively over-rich (with aftermarket tuning), and it's absolute hell on the engine - that amount of diesel in the cylinder washes down the cylinder walls and wipes off the lubricating film, so the cylinder wear is insane from even fairly short periods of it. Even in diesel truc…
> My truck (24 years and change) will smoke a bit if I stand on it and the fuel flow outruns boost coming up, but it's also entirely emissions compliant and passes the tests cleanly - it's just something older diesels do under certain conditions I always thought that banning old diesels from centers of European cities was just silly (they passed their emissions after all so they can't be billowing smoke, right?), tha…
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I think that depends on what he thinks the mistake was. To him, was the mistake cheating, getting caught, or being in position to be made an example of? He may no make the mistake again, but I'm not sure that means he won't cheat again in a similar way, given the chance.
can I prosecute ex parte the rest of the taxpayers and citizens and asthmatics the administrators supposed to have been in charge of ensuring compliance with emissions standards for failing so incredibly to do their jobs? or is there no responsibility held by whoever we place in office responsible for seeing our futures aren't squandered? how is it possible to ignore that obligation and duty when we've only just star…
Where was the oversight? How was it that an open secret of this magnitude didn’t incur the wrath of environmental agencies in the countries affected? Is it possible that no-one outside of the industry knew about this and that everyone in the industry, even in competing firms, just kept this secret for years without anything leaking out?
It doesn’t seem plausible that this wasn’t known about and ignored by regulators in at least some regions.