Mark R wrote:Yeah I saw it.
I doesn't really have any wider implications other than one knackered old VW golf (which did not have a working catalyst and would have failed the UK MOT) happened to have higher level of specific pollutants than the diesel.
I don't know what else can be read into it??
Does the article excuse diesels somehow?
Stinky old gross polluting petrols cars are out there, just in much smaller numbers than the now ubiqutous TDI.
But the people doing the testing went on to say that in their experience, as testers, some more modern diesels in the showrooms now are much worse, in real life, than the aged Octavia. I'm saying that you are wrong to single out the old VAG engine when there are worse engines being sold in new cars today. Just in relation to NOX.
Any engine that has reached a point where it is regularly chucking out black smoke is past its use by date. VAG, Ford or whatever.