MrSprdSheet
Veteran Member
Exactly. They also don't cite the testing party, so I guess we don't find out if the entire NOx conclusion was during the warm-up cycle. Look, an OEM can afford to put SCR in a diesel whose base price is >50k. Volkswagen would love not to feel alone, but they were the ONLY company looking to push econo diesels in volume, that would even have been tempted to cheat.The law firm filed the lawsuit in the name of an owner of a Mercedes BlueTech diesel car, which was allegedly found to emit dangerous levels of nitrogen oxide (NOx) 65 times higher than permitted when operating in temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius).
50F = -10C? really? wow!
The bigger news, from mgt this morning, was about costs "significantly higher than expected", and waiting until late March for a long-distance test. This may basically leak CARB's <2/23 announcement, that this whole debacle is taking even longer to sort out.
My GEN1 is hopeless, and I'm sure I'd bite quick if Feinberg were allowed to make his offer. Right now, I wish I were short VLKAY as the market opens in 5 mins.
There's also this German Prosecutor, looking to jail Porsche's former CEO:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/jail-time-urged-in-vw-takeover-case-1455826033
This was over Germany's own "Big Short".