[Theodores]

Since Porsche do not use small diesels in their cars this looks to me like the scandal is a lot bigger than first thought. It isn't just the team working on the 1.8 litre diesel engine that fiddled the software, there is something more endemic going on as the 3 litre upwards size engines are implicated.

The funny thing is this:

Porsche could sue over £25 a day congestion charge (2008)

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/19/travelandtra...

> The mayor's office responded saying the threatened legal action was "a double attack on Londoners".

> "First Porsche are trying to deprive Londoners of their democratic right to decide in the mayoral election on 1 May whether they want gas guzzling and polluting cars to drive in London when there is absolutely no need for them to do so. Second they are trying to impose on all Londoners unnecessary levels of pollution and greenhouse gases by a tiny minority," said a spokesman for the mayor.

> "No one is allowed to throw their rubbish in the street and Porsche should not be allowed to impose gas guzzling polluting cars on Londoners who do not want them."

I hope Porsche get taken to the cleaners.

Schadenfreude?

[aembleton]

That article is from 2008.

[Theodores]

Since when is history not allowed?

The point of that article is to show that Porsche are a company with total disregard for emissions, pollution and noise. It is in their DNA, it is what they do. Hence it is great that they finally get their comeuppance.

[mikeash]

VW emissions cheating is also from 2008, incidentally.