Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report
by DannyBee on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:29AM
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So they'd be dumb to say it just for PR reasons - A bunch of people will test it, if their statements turn out to be false, they'll be a massive class action suit that will be pretty easily won.
It's entirely possible, of course, that they are counting on this, and decided by then things will have died down enough PR wise that making the PR statement makes sense.
In those engines at least I doubt very much "the fix will not affect the performance or fuel economy", unless they resort to extremely expensive changes that seem unlikely (like adding said system to cars that don't have it).