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Volkswagen’s Nightmare: No ‘Fix’, A Legal Apocalypse And A Busted Future

While Volkswagen has said that it will recall “and repair” the 11 million cars fitted with the fraudulent ‘defeat device’, it is highly likely that there is no possible repair. What is it proposing to do? Re-engineer all 11-mill


While Volkswagen has said that it will recall “and repair” the 11 million cars fitted with the fraudulent ‘defeat device’, it is highly likely that there is no possible repair.

What is it proposing to do? Re-engineer all 11-million cars so that they comply with the emissions claims?

And it will do this while maintaining the performance outputs and driving characteristics that induced customers to choose a Volkswagen product over competing products?  

Is the latter even possible?

If it were not complicated, extremely difficult, or perhaps impossible, to replicate the fraudulent emissions results on road, to achieve the stated claims on emissions without seriously ‘nobbling’ performance outputs, Volkswagen would not have put so much at risk to manipulate results, to hoodwink regulators, and to then market its vehicles globally under the banner-claims of this deceit.

It is in fact highly likely – certain, you would have to think – that the dodgy emissions result can only be replicated in a manipulated ‘test environment’. And that the affected cars cannot “be repaired”.

So what will a fix do? It will certainly involve the removal of the software that produced the dodgy result, but that action, of course, will not alter the ‘actual’ emissions performance of the affected cars.

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