Schadenfreude for the Fahrvergnüge boys

My understanding is the 2.0L VWs have the SCR hardware but they just turned it off. It is likely this meant VW could not see the lack of durability because they weren't using them.

Bob Wilson

 

Germans- I have latent anger for them, after they ran my company, Chrysler, into the ditch.
Some of the things they did: redesigned Chrysler cars to use Mercedes parts and transmissions, then charged Chrysler expensive Daimler licensing fees to use those parts. Getting rid of 1/2 of the engineering in the Detroit headquarters -outsourcing it to Stuttgart Germany and then charging Chrysler over 2x as much for the same engineering work. My plant- Chrysler foundry was closed in 2005 and all the cast iron engine block production was outsourced to Brazil or Germany. One year later, we found out the company was paying 2x as much for the same engine blocks- adding over $100 more cost per vehicle.
They diverted all the profit they could back to Germany, to make Daimler look great, while they starved the US division.
The only reason that Chrysler was saved after the bankruptcy ( Fiat took the business over) , is the parts supplier companies would have likely gone bankrupt too, from the abrupt loss of Chrysler contracts= which would have also caused the collapse of GM and Ford, when those Tier one and Tier two companies folded up.
Anyway, Germany has committed national suicide by inviting in those million+ refugees, who will become useless cogs in German industry. I Think Daimler recently admitted that they have only hired a dozen or so of the refugees, due to limited education, no language skills and few manufacturing work skills.
Chrysler also tried to bring a hybrid car to the market around 2004, but it was nixed by Daimler- because there was no way the Germans could allow Chrysler to sell a hybrid before they did- also, Daimler was pouring millions into fuel cell technology, which they thought was more viable than a hybrid (wrong!) When Damiler finally saw the light and allowed Chrysler to go ahead with a hybrid, they directed them to build a hybrid SUV, the 2009 Chrysler Aspen- of which only a couple thousand were made, before the company went bankrupt. The industry in 2008-2009 needed a 50 mpg hybrid car , not a hybrid SUV that only got a few mpg more.