Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive

https://lemmy.world/post/8878351

Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive - Lemmy.World

Imagine that. Get a reputation for cars that are precisely engineered to have expensive parts fail shortly after warranty expiration, and cement that with a brand-wide emissions cheating scandal, and then wonder why no one trusts you.

Boomers only bought your air-cooled offerings because they were cheap. You got no brand goodwill out of the deal.

brand-wide emissions cheating scandal

To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.

To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.

Which other manufacturers were cheating?

…m.wikipedia.org/…/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

Check the “Other manufacturers” heading.

Volkswagen emissions scandal - Wikipedia

Basically all of them.

But this is what happen when you have rules set by people that think they can ignore physical laws and somehow make it work.