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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by MagnumOpus on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:57AM (#13528892)
> the tricky question: did anybody figure out how to do a clean enough diesel engine without cheating

Yes. It is just more expensive in terms of maintenance because the urea-based cleaning liquid ("AdBlue") needs to be refilled by the dealer a lot more often if the exhaust scrubbing doesn't cheat and disable it half the time.

If you are interested in the details of the topic, I can recommend this CCC conference talk from last month:

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7904-software_defined_emissions

Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by MichaelMoser123 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:11AM (#13530199)
wow, thanks. That's really interesting. quite amazing.