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Originally Posted by mav1178
Emissions makes sense, period.
Give the amount of cheating VW was caught with (and the fact that it was a WV lab contracted to do real-world testing for EU diesel standards using CARB methods), every automaker moving forward doesn't want to get caught with anything resembling an emissions cheat, even if it was close.
Perhaps CA regulations prevented rest of NA from getting upgrades, but CA regulations also caught the biggest emissions cheat in history. I'm okay with that.
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We're going to have to agree to disagree. The switch from a composite intake to aluminum on a car that gets +30 mpg is just not a big deal from an emissions output perspective, and it's a far cry from circumventing emissions testing with ECU trickery. If emissions stopped them from putting the red intake on automatics, why didn't it factor into the tS? The extra emissions due to stickier tires and the drag of a wing are far worse than what would happen with a mildly different intake on an automatic.