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1970-01-01

I stopped respecting Mercedes engineering when they (and the others) were caught cheating (x2) on emissions. IMHO, they all had a better chance to compete with Tesla, but they took the path of cheating and global pollution.

https://jalopnik.com/mercedes-may-have-been-caught-using-def...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal#Merce...

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Kind of interesting then that Mercedes was an early Tesla investor. Seems at least someone in Mercedes saw the future.

Is there a statute of limitations on that, or are they tainted forever?

Statute of limitations did not apply. All crimes were scrubbed by Western govts and forgotten by Western media. Remember legacy auto pays for most ads during news broadcasts

Given the context provided by the rest of the sentence, they were clearly not talking about any legal statute of limitations.

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