European Union Declares War On German Cars

Dear Greedy Auto CEOs,

Your company makes Billions in profit and with ever increasing world wide market share. We the consumers are overwhelmed that you will fight to keep your current emission trend. We feel like it is our duty to make your life harder and squeeze your wallet.

From the bottom of your heart,
BMWRocks

...will hurt German carmakers more severely than their French and Italian counterparts.



French, ok, but the Italians? Sure, most Italian cars sold are little Fiat's and Lancia's, but what about Ferrari? Lamborghini? Maserati? These firms will be hurt badly since their cars aren't that fuel efficient and still pollute, despite catalytic converters etc.

On a general note, this is what happens when you have politicians who don't have a clue about the industry making up funny laws. The European carmakers are generally very clean, and as technology improves, their cars will become cleaner. What we have here is a RADICAL change in pollution control mandate - almost like the Big American Three in the 1970s. The government set a bunch of new rules regarding pollution, safety and so forth and the Big Three's engineering couldn't cope.

Somehow I have a bad feeling that this will hurt European car sales worldwide if this law becomes reality, especially in power hungry markets like North America. Could this be the reason the new C-Class C350 still has 272-horsepower?

On another side note, a German website, Focus.de, says that one of the politicians who is involved in this is driven around in a Volkswagen Phaeton W12 - one of the most uneconomical vehicles out there. Hipocracy at its finest.

Fiat owns Ferrari and Ferrari in turn owns Maserati. VW owns Lamborghini.

Perhaps it will not hurt Ferrari, Maserati since Fiat owns them and I think the emmissions targets the group. Since BMW is its own company, as well as Mercedes and both of them do not have a high volume of low emmission emitting motors like some of the small car, big volume makers like Peugeot or Renault.

I can smell the pungent stench of Union workers.

Diesel, not hybrid...

I don't think so. Porsche has never done diesel in their sports cars, and they're certainly not putting a 911 Hybrid on their shelves any time soon. You already know there's a Cayenne Hybrid coming, but that's just Porsche being greedy.

Where's the post containing the word "Lexus". oh, mine just did. Nevermind.

this would hit lexus very very hard indeed.
they have no small cars with low CO2 emissions. even the hybrids are worse than things like a honda cr-v diesel.

does it include the parent company? if so then lexus won't be hit hard.
yes, huu, we're all wrong and america is always right about everything.