[Chris Tobin]

As the title says, I am curious of the opinions of Cruze Diesel owners regarding the VW Diesel Cheating Scandal.

I have seen a wide range of feelings among VW TDI owners from outright denial of any cheating that the EPA is out to get VW because they build such a great car to guys wanting to dump their cheating car at all costs.

Supposedly my 2006 VW Jetta TDI is pre-cheat but I still believe that the value of the brand (VW and TDI) as well as my car even though it is not an offender has taken a hit. I am also astounded that VW had years between the 2006 cars and the 2009 models to come up with a solution and yet all they could figure out was to cheat!!! That is pretty bad and I hope they are very seriously fined for their dumb decision and actions!

What say you, Chevy Cruze Diesel owners? Are any of you former TDI owners? If so did you change to the Cruze before or after the scandal broke?

 

[Chris Tobin]

And at what cost? Bottom line is critical on non-luxury vehicles...pennies per unit are significant as they add up. And the cost isn't insignificant. The diesel in the Curze like most modern vehicles carries a HUGE price penalty because of the excessive emmission mandates imposed by people who openly admit they hate diesel vehicles and intend to take them off the road.

Same tactics of how do you boil a frog in an open pot of water? You start out cold and slowly raise the temperature....the frog gets used to it and doesn't jump out until it hits the critical temperature and dies and cooks. Right out of Saul Alinski's rules for radicals playbook. Eventually they will become so expensive nobody can afford to use them as a result...then end game.

Pricing an equally equipped VW Jetta TDI with a Cruze Diesel and the Chevy is cheaper and has real leather available... GM managed to do it out of the gate in the US market with a modern Common Rail diesel engine. VW had YEARS of experience in the US market and chose to CHEAT to make more money!!! That's huge in my book...

 

[Chris Tobin]

This is the engineering/design/marketing tradeoff that has to be made for all consumer products. In the case of Diesels this may mean that the bottom tier of cars will never be diesel. This is OK - it's market forces at work. VW was trying to cheat reality by cutting corners on their emissions systems. Chevy didn't cut those corners on the Cruze CTD. Mercedes apparently hasn't cut those corners either.

BMW seems to be doing it too...