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I remember that from my '14 Passat. After two years and more than 20k miles the tailpipe was spotless. My daughter's '13 GTI tailpipes were completely covered with soot/whatever and I always struggled to keep the chrome tailpipes clean. My TDI was far cleaner.

I'm glad you're not running the world. Who's to say I might not pick up another TDI? I still strongly support diesel as a way to conserve petroleum resources. It's just unfortunate that there's nothing available in the US any longer, and likely will never return.

That's not true and you know it. I've seen coal rolling from VWs as well as the big trucks. Fortunately most VW owners are more intelligent than that.

OK, I think I just read an article about the "guy" with a $10M fine. Looks to me like he deserved it, as he not only sold tens of thousands of tune kits but he did it after the company that was supplying the kits was busted and stopped selling them. So he "procured" the software to make them...

My city tried that... once. The resurfaced road was so poor that it had to be completely resurfaced the "normal" way. I never saw that ever tried again.

I'm not defending every action ever taken by a government employee. I completely agree that there are some that are out of control, and have no business doing what they do. See my reply to K5FAL above about my intentions.

I completely get your point. However, Congress would never get anything accomplished if they had to create every regulation needed by every agency. They couldn't handle the FAA requirements, let alone the entire DOT, or any other agency. I know people like to pile on government workers, and...

I don't think you're being fair to government employees in general and EPA employees in particular. I have 40 years in the FAA, and yes I am highly paid. And I don't have a degree of any kind. But I have a very specialized job that not everyone can do. The same applies to many government...

If it was $33M profit, then yeah it pencils out. But if that's gross revenue, chances are his actual pocket money was less than the fine.

In the US of course we only received the ID.4. While it originally came up short in some ways, in others it was a perfectly acceptable EV. As usual for VW, pricing is probably the single biggest issue they have, then and now. The software issues have all pretty much been resolved. I haven't...

Electrification itself isn't the problem. The auto industry can handle it fine if they make the effort. VW has numerous PHEVs available in Europe but for some reason won't bring them to the US. I love driving a PHEV, and I enjoyed my EV when I had it. Since the wife still has range anxiety, no...

The biggest problem with diesel passenger cars returning to the US is a) still the fallout of Dieselgate and b) for the past few years D2 has been priced severely higher than the highest grade of gasoline. For quite some time in my general area diesel was more than $1 gallon higher than even...

That's kind of cutting off your nose to spite your face. EVs are not inherently bad. They just aren't the right car for everyone at this time. I think the day will come, but it's not really that close yet. And I'm pro-EV, but recognize they still won't work for everyone.

I like both of them, but I hated that the doors unlocked when I put the car in Park (my Taos). Fortunately Carista let me change that. Don't know why VW removed the user setting for that. I am going to have to upgrade my VCDS cable to with with the newer cars, but Carista was a fast, inexpensive...

I completely agree that your scenario simply doesn't work with an EV with today's technology. And there certainly are others that have the same use case. But I think your estimation that there's "millions" that have the same situation might be a bit high. The day will come (eventually) that an...

An EV is a great choice for many drivers. They simply don't want to believe it. They insist they "need" a car that can drive 500 miles and refuel in five minutes. And for a small group of drivers that is completely accurate. But for the majority, the range of almost every EV available today is...

And there's also cases of people trying B100 (which stands a better chance of success than WVO) and barely going any distance before alerts triggered and things began messing up. CR engines have much higher temps at the injector, and running an inappropriate fuel will immediately begin having...

True, but that's not the same as the OP was proposing. RD meets all the specs of dino diesel, so it's a drop in replacement. Most people probably don't even realize RD has any biostock in it. :)

No, just no. Not with a common rail TDI, not any amount of any biostock fuel, other than a low mixture of Biodiesel. VW approves of B5, and in a few states were required to allow up to B20. But no pure biofuel of any kind in a CR.

Considering he was born in 1858 and died in 1913, I doubt he had even heard of that word. While he was born in France, he was still considered German because of his parents and at age 12 he and his family moved to the London area.