American engines are bigger because vehicles are bigger, and pollution control tests happen to favor large engines. From there to say that the pollution thresholds have been set so that the large vehicles of American manufacturers pass them without cost of ...

We have a little derivative on the rivalry Europe / US and their different way of seeing the automobile engine. The initial subject is the cheating of VW ... Forced to cheat to obtain the US anti-pollution standards with their "small" displacement engines while the Americans get there ...

This time it is the 1.6l which is affected .. With a straightforward mechanical intervention ... Well my pig ... While strangely the large engines, they pass ... Downsizing is m ... Long live the big engines that run almost cold ... Ford has released for their van ...

Not so simple .......... https://www.santenatureinnovation.com/affaire-volkswagen-pas-si-simple/ To comply with American standards, you have to pollute more! Ironically, the result of these absurd standards is that the American motorist is forced to buy a powerful diesel model and at ...

My trailer with a 1 tonne payload ... I pull it with an alfa 156 diesel 105hp (which is hardly used more than that) and which does not reach these consumptions despite its 320km ... For my trips daily ... It's nuclear car ... What I wanted to say is that even if a few exe ...

In the end, from a point of view of the world automobile economy, the big winners are the US, Sales of 2t7 rams consuming 9 liters / 100 in Europe should not (hope) fill their boxes ... they will cash in billions with the fine imposed on VW! CQFD at least it works ...

Well, since in this case we are talking about conspiracy theory, we generally agree that the Americans are ready to do anything to extend their hegemony, and that, in the end, the US derives an exceptional profit from this case. . here is a hypothesis: to counter the rise in power ...

I can not wait to see the results of the new tests improved, maybe we will have surprises in other manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes ... possibly others ...

with all modern sensors, there is only one solution: to actually drive the vehicle on the track ... because if the VW software is really intelligent, it can exploit many signals: turn the steering wheel or the wheels , it is already very basic ... and it will probably not be enough ...

I allow myself to think that the "American" origin (I mean in the geographical sense) of Alain G must make him see the problem from another angle ... It would be interesting to see how the Quebec press treats the problem. Alain what are the 2 or 3 biggest newspapers in Quebec? Sal ...