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by tzs 3885 days ago
> Are we sure that this should not be Carbon Monoxide rather then Carbon Dioxide

Volkswagen says CO2 on their news site [1].

http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_center/en/ne...

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"Under the ongoing review of all processes and workflows in connection with diesel engines it was established that the CO2 levels and thus the fuel consumption figures for some models were set too low during the CO2 certification process. The majority of the vehicles concerned have diesel engines."

So the official fuel consumption numbers were reported too low, possibly as a result of the dyno cheating mode.