This is the latest news coming out of German courts. They programmed gasoline cars to alter combustion routines while being smog-tested, so they’d have cleaner exhaust.
Why am I not surprised? If they thought it was okay to break the law, and lie to customers, then I think it’s okay to boycott the company completely. I don’t hand my hard-earned dollars to criminals
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EVERY car company has found one or more ways to cheat emissions testing (if you look into penalties paid by automakers to the govt you'd see that nobody is 'clean'), some just aren't as arrogant as VW when caught. Most just pay the fine, say "we're sorry" and continue on cheating the system. VW went the deny, deny, deny route and got an example made out of them. Hell, right after dieselgate Harley Davidson was busted by the EPA, they where tuning their bikes that came out of the factory with a compliant tune and when they got to the dealers they where retuned as part of dealer prep to sell with the "screaming eagle" tune that restored the bike to advertised performance. You dont hear about the HD thing because they dropped to their knees and wrote a fat "my bad" check to the government who conveniently looked the other way afterwards.
Like mentioned before, if you dont like "giving your money to criminals" stop paying your taxes, and stop buying pretty much anything mass produced or regulated by the government. "Government regulation" is the largest racket ever perpetrated in the history of man because if you pay a big enough "fine" (I call it a bribe) you can get an exemption for any rule, they'll even help you find a loophole to exploit or write one into the laws if you are willing to help them stay elected.
Nobody is as clean and pure as the wind driven snow that **** is a fantasy.
