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Thus far, it's a been a quiet start to the third week of the Volkswagen diesel-emission cheating scandal. Eight years' worth of VW TDI models, both new and used, have been taken off sale at the company's North American dealerships. We surmise its engineers are working around the clock at their Wolfsburg headquarters to develop modifications to those cars that will let them comply with EPA limits in real-world use. ALSO SEE: VW Diesel Emissions Recall: What You Need To Know In 10 Questions But it's not too soon to sit back and consider what could be the longer-term effects of this scandal...
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European Makers: NOx Limits Must Rise For Real-World Emissions Tests
Carmakers in Europe, Asia, and North America have met exhaust emission limits for decades, as measured by strict standardized vehicle tests on dynamometers, or "rolling roads." With the Volkswagen diesel scandal now entering its third week, U.S. and European regulators plan to test more cars under...
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Supplier Warned VW Of Illegal Diesel ‘Defeat Device’—In 2007
German supplier Bosch, the longtime manufacturer of fuel-system and emissions components to Volkswagen, warned the automaker that using software that would circumvent emissions rules in normal, publicly sold vehicles was illegal. That wasn’t last week, or earlier this year. It was in...
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Why Did Volkswagen Cheat On Diesel Emissions In Its TDI Cars?
The bad news for Volkswagen just keeps on coming. In the last week, the company has fired much of its upper management, eradicated all mention of its TDI diesels from its U.S. website, and admitted that 11 million diesel vehicles have software that enabled them to pass emission tests while emitting...
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EPA Expands VW Diesel Probe To Audi, Porsche V-6s; All Diesels To Be Tested
Amidst a growing list of probes into Volkswagen's diesel-emission cheating scandal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expanding its investigation to cover additional diesel engines used in VW Group vehicles. The original admission by the company that it used a software "defeat device" to...
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VW: 11 Million Diesels Had Cheating Software, $7.3 Billion Set Aside; Criminal Probe Reported
Volkswagen AG said today it would adjust its third-quarter earnings to set aside $7.3 billion (€6.5 billion) for costs related to its admission that it used software to cheat on U.S. emissions tests of its diesel engines. That sum will "cover the necessary service measures and other efforts to...
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The announcement came out of the blue: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a media call at 12 noon EST today, Friday, September 18, to make an announcement regarding a major automaker." When it was all over, German carmakers Volkswagen and Audi had been ordered to recall half a million of its popular TDI four-cylinder diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. from 2009 to 2015. More startling, the EPA took the action because those TDI cars appeared to detect emission-testing cycles and significantly reduce their emissions under those circumstances. DON'T MISS: Further Crackdowns On...
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2015 VW Golf SportWagen: Lease On TDI Better Than Gasoline Version
Despite different MSRPs, base versions of the gasoline and diesel 2015 Golf SportWagen cost about the same to lease.
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Diesel Car Guide: Every 2015-2016 Car & Light Truck, With Specs: UPDATED
Green Car Reports' guide to every diesel car and truck on sale.
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2015 Audi A3 TDI Diesel: Fuel Economy Review
The 2015 Audi A3 is the first all-new version of the compact luxury car since it was launched in the U.S. as a 2006 model. And there are a lot of changes. Most noticeable is its evolution from a five-door hatchback to a four-door sedan, facing it off neatly against the Mercedes-Benz CLA (also a...
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New Volkswagen TDI Turbodiesel Engine: 268 HP, Electric Turbocharger
Volkswagen will launch a 2.0-liter diesel engine with an electric turbocharger.
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2015 Volkswagen Golf: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2015
Our Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways here on Green Car Reports. Sometimes it goes to a moonshot car, like the first Nissan Leaf (in 2011) or the Tesla Model S (in 2013). Those are cars that radically redefined what green transportation could be, changing the auto industry forever...
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New-car ratings, driving impressions, and a lot of lengthy discussions go into picking our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award winner each year. We explained our process yesterday, along with all of our nominees for the 2015 award, but this year we thought we'd add a new element. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports' 2015 Best Car To Buy: The Nominees (Video) While the full set of High Gear Media editors collectively decide on which cars win the annual Best Car To Buy award on each of our three sites--The Car Connection and Motor Authority are the other two--we wanted to see what readers thought...
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Green Car Reports' 2015 Best Car To Buy: The Nominees (Video)
It's time once more for our annual Best Car To Buy award. It's the fifth time we've chosen the one car or lineup, newly introduced for this model year, that represents the best new green car to enter the market. To qualify, a car must be all-new or substantially updated from the previous model...
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Diesel Luxury Sedans: Audi, BMW, Mercedes Face Off, Mazda Still Missing
While gasoline power units have seen incremental improvements over the last few decades, diesels seem to have shot up from relative obscurity straight to the big time. Sales still lag their gasoline counterparts but performance, refinement and driveability are all more than competitive, and economy...
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Audi TDI Diesel Engines: Honoring 25 Years Of Fuel Efficiency, Lower Emissions
U.S. customers haven't had quite the range of diesel vehicles their European counterparts enjoy, but it's still hard to believe that one of the biggest badges in diesel technology--TDI--is now a quarter-century old. Audi launched its first TDI diesel model at the 1989 Frankfurt Auto Show. That car...
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2015 Audi A3 TDI Diesel Luxury Sedan Priced From $32,600
While gasoline versions of the all-new 2015 Audi A3 compact luxury sedan went on sale in April, the model line also includes a TDI diesel version as well as an S3 performance sedan and an A3 Cabrio convertible. Those models will go on sale late this summer, and now pricing has been released for the...
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German Federal Parliament Gets Efficient Audi Diesel Cars For Official Duties
The German Federal Parliament will take delivery of 66 Audi A6 2.0 TDI Ultra sedans.
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"Turbo" was the word to have on your car in the 1980s. Preferably in huge, bright script, completely out of correlation with the car's actual performance. Now, it's more often used as an indication of efficiency--take Ford's Ecoboost brand, for example. Audi has used them for many years on its gasoline and diesel models, and has now put its latest innovation--electric turbochargers--in a fully-working prototype vehicle. Based on the firm's RS5 performance coupe, Audi's turbocharged tech could legitimately wear bright 80s-style turbo stickers. And in fact, it does--in a sort of restrained...
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2015 Volkswagen Golf Launch Edition Priced At Under $19,000
A special Launch Edition model brings the 2015 Volkswagen Golf hatchback's base price below $19,000.
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Audi A3 TDI Sportback Unveiled At NY Show, To Join Sedan Model Next Year: Live Photos
Audi will debut its new A3 Sportback TDI at today's New York Auto Show. The four-door hatchback will join the A3 sedan TDI in the summer of 2015, as a sportier option for those wanting Audi's compelling mix of luxury and economy. Sportback models have been on sale in Europe for several years now...
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2015 VW Golf TDI SportWagen Concept: New York Auto Show Debut
Next week's New York Auto Show will see the debut of a car bound to appeal to fans of diesel wagons everywhere. Aha, you say, it's the new Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen! Well, no. But, yes, sort of. ALSO SEE: Johammer Electric Motorcycle: World's Weirdest Way To Go Green What VW is calling the...
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2015 Audi A3: Small Luxury Sedan With TDI Diesel Option
A decade ago, the concept of a sporting or luxurious sedan with a diesel engine was virtually unthinkable in the U.S. They had neither the refinement, nor the performance to be a viable alternative to a larger, multi-cylinder gasoline engine. All that is changing. And one of the ones helping to...
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2015 VW Golf, Beetle, Passat, Jetta All Get New Clean Diesel Engine
Volkswagen's most popular vehicles will all receive a new engine in the second half of the year, in the shape of the company's latest 2-liter turbodiesel unit. The new EA288 engine is already powering vehicles all around Europe, and Volkswagen has now announced the models it'll power in North...
Antony Ingram