[wnevets]

>Why doesn't the EPA simply ban the sale of any car manufactured by VW

do they have the legal authority to do so? If they did, I doubt the republican led congress would stand by idly.

[MBCook]

They do and have. They won't certify any 2016 VW Diesels. That's the whole reason this blew up now instead of last year when researchers first discovered it.