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Originally Posted by OldEngineer
This whole saga has a smell about it. It's the directors that set unattainable targets for emissions and then wonder why staff cheat. And yet still they have customers? What other engineering targets are not met. What quality issues are not dealt with.
But perhaps the biggest question is why you would buy an Audi when everything that matters is on a Skoda?
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Great point. The sooner consumers start to look at items for what they are and appreciate that a brand is something that is used to soley generate money, the sooner brands will experience drops in sales and be forced to make stuff properly again/consistently.
Looking at the Ford Focus RS engine issues as an example, where the design is flawed from the outset, you have to assume that as with any line of work, the voices and opinions of the experts (engineers etc.) are over ridden by the quick win mentality of accountants and directors.
Ford have had many wide spread issues with the Powershift transmissions, eco-boost engines, high power engines, VAG with the old DSG gearbox problems just to name a few. Yet, when it all goes wrong, the customers are fobbed off and left wth a piece of scrap metal that they have either paid or owe thousands for as OEMs do not want to hold their hands up for their deliberate/intentional screw jobs...... until they are forced down the path of a massive lawsuit.