VW recall

Not at all, it means what it says and what it said was "...their existing vehicles."

If they'd meant that existing vehicles will not be charged a higher rate of Vehicle Excise Duty in the event of the g CO2/km being revised, then they'd probably have said that.

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amcmaho
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Except as pointed out earlier, VW have said that consumption will not increase.

Tim

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Tim+

No they wouldn't

the idea that they might re-band these vehicles with the re-banding only becoming active on a sale would be a nightmare to police.

When they say "existing vehicles", they mean "all existing vehicles"

tim

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Which means that unless they're doing extensive hardware modifications, performance will be worse.

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Dave Plowman (News)

The 1.6 is to have new injectors for some reason, so perhaps they are altering the spray pattern / timing and the injectors in 1.6 cannot cope. This change could improve overall efficiency - perhaps they are using some tech off the Euro 6 engines.

Simon.

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sm_jamieson

And you know this for a fact?

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Richard

I don't think anyone knows anything for "a fact", probably not even VW. They have publicly stated the fuel economy maintenance. It stands to reason though that they wouldn't have used the "cheat" unless there was something to be gained by it.

Remove the "cheat" and SOMETHING has to give, or else, as Dave says, they're going to engineer their way out of this corner. We're just going to have to wait and see.

Tim

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Tim+

Common sense, pet. Something you wouldn't know about.

If the car had the same performance and economy after meeting the quoted emissions with just a software tweak, why fiddle it in the first place?

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Dave Plowman (News)

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