Kai
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2004
- Location
- Kailua, Hawaii
- TDI
- 2004 Jetta TDI wagon manual; 2006 Jetta TDI sedan manual
Mr. Stefan Jacoby, CEO
Volkswagen Group of America
2200 Ferdinand Porsche Dr.
Herndon, VA 20171
Dear Mr. Jacoby,
As a loyal Volkswagen (2004 Jetta TDI wagon) and Porsche (2007 Carrera S) owner, who has toured your facilities in Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, and Leipzig, I wanted to let you know how excited I was to see the new Jetta TDI Sportwagen, first in Europe badged as a Golf and then here in the US in 2009. It is a beautiful car that I subsequently test-drove and truly desired to own.
I ordered a 2009 Jetta TDI Sportwagen from my local dealer, Tony Volkswagen in Waipahu, but then did not purchase the car after learning that because of the post-injection strategy VW engineers chose to comply with 50-state US emissions standards, the new “clear diesel,” as it is called, is incapable of running any significant blend of biodiesel fuel.
To me, and to many others of like mind, this is a giant step backward for clean diesel technology and for the environment. And I am seriously disappointed in VW, whose TDI passenger cars heretofore have been the only ones in America capable of using biodiesel fuels. Like many TDI owners committed to using biodiesel, I have made the decision not the buy the new TDI, but instead to keep my older car that will run bio-blends from B20 to B100.
I hope that VW engineers will find a better strategy for meeting emissions standards in the next version of the TDI, enabling once again the use of biodiesel. I will be one of the first in line to buy one.
Sincerely yours,
Volkswagen Group of America
2200 Ferdinand Porsche Dr.
Herndon, VA 20171
Dear Mr. Jacoby,
As a loyal Volkswagen (2004 Jetta TDI wagon) and Porsche (2007 Carrera S) owner, who has toured your facilities in Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, and Leipzig, I wanted to let you know how excited I was to see the new Jetta TDI Sportwagen, first in Europe badged as a Golf and then here in the US in 2009. It is a beautiful car that I subsequently test-drove and truly desired to own.
I ordered a 2009 Jetta TDI Sportwagen from my local dealer, Tony Volkswagen in Waipahu, but then did not purchase the car after learning that because of the post-injection strategy VW engineers chose to comply with 50-state US emissions standards, the new “clear diesel,” as it is called, is incapable of running any significant blend of biodiesel fuel.
To me, and to many others of like mind, this is a giant step backward for clean diesel technology and for the environment. And I am seriously disappointed in VW, whose TDI passenger cars heretofore have been the only ones in America capable of using biodiesel fuels. Like many TDI owners committed to using biodiesel, I have made the decision not the buy the new TDI, but instead to keep my older car that will run bio-blends from B20 to B100.
I hope that VW engineers will find a better strategy for meeting emissions standards in the next version of the TDI, enabling once again the use of biodiesel. I will be one of the first in line to buy one.
Sincerely yours,