We're under assault by a Teutonic Terror. About half a million US diesel cars and 11 million worldwide sold by Volkswagen AG, including VWs, Audis, Seats, and Škodas, appear to have software that tricks emissions tests. Actual emissions are "40 times higher" we're told. And people are dying.
"Quatsch!" as they say in German. Nonsense! It's just another car mass hysteria, like "runaway" Toyotas a few years ago and runaway Audis before that. At least one freaked-out occasional car reviewer engaged in public self-flagellation: "I was fooled by Volkswagen's diesel hype--and I'm sorry," she blubbered. She went on to attack the entire notion of clean-running diesel cars and concluded, "Two of my closest friends are asking me what will happen with their cars; I have no idea."