Reply With QuoteIt seems VW believed they could fool 'mere' bureaucrats but were found out by the 'technocrats'..........a very expensive lesson in humility.
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And probably significantly less than 200,000. A headline is one thing, the detail may well be another:-Originally Posted by Ryeman
"A key point: if you've already had repair work done under the initial recall, you don't qualify for the buy-back."
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George
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It seems VW believed they could fool 'mere' bureaucrats but were found out by the 'technocrats'..........a very expensive lesson in humility.
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The investors pile in now
VW investors file multi-billion dollar suit in Germany | Business | The Guardian
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"Oh, and the dealers... Whatever you’ve heard about poor Volkswagen service, don’t believe it. It's so much worse than that. Not just one, mind, but two separate dealers who have been each as clueless, disinterested and indifferent as the other. Jean-Paul Sartre would’ve done a better job at customer service. At least he’d have appreciated the absurdity of it all."
"Now, the Golf must go. I don’t trust it. Nothing makes me angrier than the betrayal of trust by presenting false integrity. And now, thanks to the Volkswagen emissions debacle of November 2015, I really don’t trust the company. ‘Dieselgate' has only legitimised my deep consternation about VW: that actually, all of this engineering ‘genius,’ the stuff that sucked us all in, really doesn’t exist.
Maybe this is a company with a rotten core, whose desperate, hubristic drive to be World No. 1 led it to create an illusion it could do things it actually really couldn’t. The emissions scandal may have been the smoking gun, but the well publicised, yet now-sort-of-forgotten DSG farce runs even deeper. It has the potential to plague the company for years, to haunt that thing Volkswagen needs more than anything right now, its reputation. And, worst of all, it says this is a company that not only lies to its customers, but has lied to itself about just how capable it really is. Maybe, after all, that sparkling engineering heart of the giant that lured us all, was, sadly, just imagined."
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The guy can write for sure - but sometimes you go to a restaurant and choose the fish, which is crap, and your date has the steak, which is great. Perhaps he chose DSG when the manual is what he should have had. Perhaps, also, VW is rotten to the core and deludes itself as to its own abilities - but I know there can be 'diamonds in the rough' and I'm lucky enough to enjoy driving my two veedubs.
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The better half's Peugeot 308 1.2 Aisin 6A - (5L/100 over 16k) is a serious competitor and is a must for comparison purposes.
Ultimate Dubber
A Buddy Holly song comes to mind about this article
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That'll be the day.....
Ultimate Dubber
Nope more like RAVE ON
2021 Kamiq LE 110 , Moon White, BV cameras F & B
Mamba Ebike to replace Tiguan
Volkswagenist
I have to agree with the writer I am still not convinced our DSG is going to hold up any better than the Tiptronic in our previous T5 van did . Our current DSG equipped T5.1 van decided to tell me after only 1500 km that it was not going to play the game as it should . Backed out of driveway we live part way up a hill , okay foot on brake /engaged drive/ foot to accelerator and whoosh down the hill backwards it goes !! Jeeezus Christ came to mind as in that nano second of rearward out of control decent I slammed on the brakes . Took stock of surroundings surveyed the shift yes it was in drive the selector says so and so did the instrument cluster !! So back to park back to drive and whoa backwards we go again , no this was not hill hold syndrome but absolutely a total brain fade by the DSG it did what I was told later had a "False Neutral " WTF is that ? VW speak for s*#*^t it does not work every time so bad luck . Not to mention that the DSG is not anywhere near as good as some claim , we have had many times experienced lousy gear selection especially at roundabouts result quick trip to laundry to clear stains in undies as the van enters the roundabout in the wrong gear or decides half way into the roundabout to change . By then you have another car threatening your very existence and the other driver cursing at full volume , then there is hilly terrain where it does not have a clue what to do result clunks and unplanned shifts . DSG lousy / Tiptronic fabulous changes lousy service design . Both developed to extract $$$ from unsuspecting owners .
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