Ecolomafia: your lungs have a price America fired the shot. Not a European regulator. Not a Brussels commissioner with a mandate and a press office. A federal agency in Washington, working from test data, put a notice of violation on the desk of the largest carmaker on the planet in September 2015 and blew open … Read more
Audi V12 TDI: The Greatest Diesel Ever Built, Killed By Audi America never got the Audi V12 TDI. That turns out to be the least interesting thing about it. Here’s the more interesting thing. The V12 TDI is not the Le Mans engine. It doesn’t share the vee angle, the displacement, or the architecture with … Read more
German Auto Industry Crisis: The Hangover, Wolfsburg Edition The suite is destroyed. There’s a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, a mattress speared on a statue outside, and a stolen LVPD cruiser sitting in the valet lane. Four guys on the floor, none of them remember anything, one is missing a tooth, … Read more
EGR valve explained: why it clogs, the 6.0 Power Stroke’s EGR coolers, how dieselgate rigged EGR on 11 million cars, and why Spain fails deleted cars at inspection.
