http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 'Carmakers manipulate emissions tests' en Mon, 18 May 2026 20:56:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9692#post-104456 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:36:25 +0000 Blueth 104456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's been acknowledged for years that the official tests don't reflect real life, even without chicanery on the part of the manufacturers. And as for the anti-pollution measures that perhaps work under lab conditions but which actually increase the fuel consumption by a significant margin - well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9692#post-104437 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:48:52 +0000 EddieD 104437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In other news, water is wet, and ursines defecate in arboreal areas... It's been going on for years in one way or another - one company (Audi, I think) used to fill the boot with water to try and make it appear more capacious.</p> <p>Funnily enough, on the news this morning I heard an Archbishop say "the Pope is Catholic". I always find the Today program verges on the surreal half the time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9692#post-104424 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:51:14 +0000 Radgeworks 104424@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lets not forget the sales literature from the shamworks Via the Scotsman..</p> <p>“At the end of this year all of the construction, the big construction, will be cleared and the trams will be tested all over the city and folk are going to start saying ‘why can’t we get on yet’!”5th March - Cllr Burns.... </p> <p>R </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9692#post-104422 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:44:55 +0000 Baldcyclist 104422@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Doesn't ALL sales literature mislead it's target audience?</p> <p>Fags aren't cool, ISA's don't make you money, cars don't run on empty roads, Flakes aren't heavenly, bicycles aren't maintenance free, 2 for 1 makes you spend not save money, rising house prices are not good, pills can't make you grow 15% etc etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9692#post-104408 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:01:09 +0000 kaputnik 104408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Next they'll be saying that the quoted fuel efficiencies are a fix too! If you can't trust carmakers, who can you trust? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9692#post-104403 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:53:57 +0000 slowcoach 104403@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Carmakers are misleading their customers by promoting fuel efficiency figures that they know will not be achieved." quote from a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21759258">BBC report</a> </p>