Diesl
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2012
- Location
- Chicago
- TDI
- '78 Golf Diesel (long gone); 2012 Jetta Sportwagen TDI w/ DSG
... when they realize that way fewer people will turn in their cars if they can't buy a new or fixed TDI.
I for one don't see the timeline of this whole thing working out very well for them, with the Gen3 fix coming last - if at all-, and no new TDIs in sight.
A lot of us who registered for the buyback in hopes of swapping the car for a fixed 2015 TDI (I've kind of given up hope on a swap for a new alltrack TDI, although that is what VW ought to do to make things right) might end up just keeping our Gen1 TDIs. That will lead to a whole lot of penalty to pay for VW, and not the outcome the EPA/CARB were hoping for either. There's just no other replacement vehicle out there if we apply the same criteria that lead us to our TDI in the first place just a few years ago. I mean, why would I buy a crappy not fun to drive car now that I decided against just four years ago ? To please VW ? Or the EPA ?? I don't think so.
I for one don't see the timeline of this whole thing working out very well for them, with the Gen3 fix coming last - if at all-, and no new TDIs in sight.
A lot of us who registered for the buyback in hopes of swapping the car for a fixed 2015 TDI (I've kind of given up hope on a swap for a new alltrack TDI, although that is what VW ought to do to make things right) might end up just keeping our Gen1 TDIs. That will lead to a whole lot of penalty to pay for VW, and not the outcome the EPA/CARB were hoping for either. There's just no other replacement vehicle out there if we apply the same criteria that lead us to our TDI in the first place just a few years ago. I mean, why would I buy a crappy not fun to drive car now that I decided against just four years ago ? To please VW ? Or the EPA ?? I don't think so.