US Pickup Trucks trying to copy VW?

NC Hauler wrote:
Don't understand the Australian take on American vehicles? The VW diesel equipped vehicle was programmed to "lie" about emission claims when inspected and the manufacturer built it like that ON PURPOSE!....and it doesn't meet emission requirements, though VW stated it did so that they could sell more vehicles here in the US..We won't program our vehicles to lie...

Ford, GM and Ram, all have jumped through hoops to meet those EPA requirements..didn't cheat, didn't lie...they didn't have to..VW got caught...they should pay...Ford, GM or Chrysler/Ram would have to, why should VW allowed to get away with lying? They sure shouldn't be given a free pass for deception.

Don't know about the gassers...VW issue was with DIESEL. IF Ford wasn't meeting EPA requirements, I'd imagine we see all kinds of recalls, or quite a few story line in the news about this....I haven't..no lying, no deception...Make your country perfect, THEN, you can work on ours..:R

At the risk of sounding like I'm baiting you, and I'm not, is the fact that VW lied a real surprise to anybody?

You have media outlets, politicians, actors, banks, singers, and just about everybody else, including religious figures, lying these days.

Then you have almost impossible, unscientific requirements imposed on manufacturers of diesel vehicles, saying they have to meet the same pollution standards as gasoline vehicles.

Hello !...Gasoline and diesel are two completely different fuels, from a chemical point of view. One is short chain hydrocarbons, one is long chain hydrocarbons. Different boiling points, flash points, molecular weights, density, etc. You name it, they are different.

Yes, they both undergo combustion, but combustion occurs differently for long and short chain hydrocarbons. The kinetics of the combustion reaction are different.

I think VW made the only logical choice they could. You will see more of this, as political requirements are not guided by scientific principles.

The EPA are nothing but a bunch of political hacks who have forgotten what their purpose is (if they ever knew), and have no clue about science.