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Seriously- the Jetta TDI made 11% less power[1] in compliance mode. This isn't about the regulations being hard to meet, it's about flagrantly disregarding the EPA. It's about how pathetically toothless the EPA is, that they didn't have the funding or reach to discover this and instead college students figured it out.

[1]: https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-much-horsepower-volkswagens-l...

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The year I bought my Jetta it was the most efficient midsize sedan by a wide margin. I bought it because my friends had Priuses and it was feeling pretty monochromatic at my house.

The skeptic in me should have known better. One manufacturer was blowing everyone else out of the water? German engineering? A seriously nifty gearbox? Are those enough to explain the difference? Apparently not.

Toothless? The EPA is like a great white shark compared to European regulators.

Was.

Yeah, the fact that Scott Pruitt was the head of the EPA for over a year was a sick joke.

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