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    June 12th, 2018 11:57 AM #1
    Oh-oh. It seems Mercedes is the next one to suffer the fate of VW with regards to defeat devices for diesel engines


    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/germ...ed-device.html
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    June 12th, 2018 12:22 PM #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Egan101 View Post
    Oh-oh. It seems Mercedes is the next one to suffer the fate of VW with regards to defeat devices for diesel engines


    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/germ...ed-device.html
    mb has cheatware? does mb share supplier with vw?
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    June 13th, 2018 10:49 AM #3
    Governments are making policies that are unrealistic or near impossible to achieve given the current technology ... perhaps due to lobbying from Tesla and electric car battery industry ... so a lot of companies had no choice but to be "creative" ... wouldn't be surprised if most companies are doing this ...
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    June 13th, 2018 10:55 AM #4
    I think Renault has also been accused of installing cheat software on their vehicles.
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