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I think we can take it as given that ALL manufactures have been cheating.
Just as nobody ever achieves the fuel economy figures quoted, so too with the emissions.
I think that it is clear this is across the board and not just a small handful of manufacturers.
This is what happens when those in power keep moving the goalposts, and the manufacturers are trying to compete with each other. Someone will decide to cheat, then the others have to cheat to remain competitive.
I might be in a minority of one here, but I always thought the reason the formal emission test, carried out in a tightly controlled environment, was only for certification purposes and was in no way supposed to suggest any resemblance to real-world driving. To now say that the vehicles that successfully passed the tests with no cheating are expected to meet those emission levels in real-world driving is not only changing the goal posts with the ball in mid-flight, but is also highly unrealistic.
McNamara hit the nail on the head when he extolled people to measure what's important, not make important what you can measure. It's no surprise you get the wrong result when you measure the wrong thing and make decisions based on those measurements.
I always wanted them to scrap VED and add it to the taxation on fuel. That would produce a simple and equitable system that taxed according to use.
It will never happen of course because although it's rational it would be a vote loser for the political party that did it.
...Cars are charged VED based on emissions, yet just because a car has a higher emission during testing does not mean it will emit more than a car rated lower on the emission test....
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