Well, now we know… how much Uncle’s persecution of VW is costing us – on top of the billions it has already cost Volkswagen.
Are you ready, Freddie?
About seven miles per gallon.
That’s how much the mileage of a 2015 Jetta TDI droops after it gets “fixed” – a term also used by farmers and used in the same manner here as well.
The VWs in question – like young male calves – were not broken. “Fixing” is a euphemism for taking something away . . . .
In the case of the VWs, what’s being taken away – by those who brought their cars in for “fixing”- is their formerly exceptional fuel efficiency.
And now we know exactly how much of that has been lost.
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Originally, a 2015 Jetta TDI carried a window sticker that read 30 city and 44 highway. Behold the new window sticker, affixed to literally legions of “fixed” and still brand-new 2015 and 2016 Jettas which never got sold :
29 city, 37 highway.
These Jettas (and Passats and other TDI-powered VWs) have been sitting idle since the “scandal” broke back in 2015 and are now being re-certified for sale. Part of that process includes updating the window stickers, on which is displayed the EPA’s city/highway mileage estimates.
Like the poor steer, post-“fixing,” these TDI VWs have lost something.
And it’s not a little something, either.
Individual owners of cars that escaped being corralled – and who brought their cars in for the same “fix” – no doubt noticed their cars no longer went as far on a gallon as they once did.
But it was all anecdotal.
Now, it’s official – in Uncle’s own hand, so to speak.
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