• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    To be fair, the Germans weren’t the only ones cheating emissions tests. As far as I’ve heard, Harley-Davidson used special tunes on their bikes to pass emissions testing. Never heard of BMWs just randomly bursting into flames, though, gotta look into that.

    I don’t know about US car makers, but I can imagine them having done similar stuff

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      8 hours ago

      Don’t doubt it for a second, absolutely. There’s a reason why BMW scrambling to fix their own little trick. VW just got caught doing it