As the owners of a 2010 Jetta Sportwagen TDI, last month my wife and I found ourselves smack in the middle of the latest auto-related media circus, Dieselgate. The Volkswagen diesel emissions "scandal." Shocked, dismayed, betrayed? No - I wasn't really surprised. You see, this type of thing has been going on for years in the auto industry and the public revelation of VW's cheating on the EPA Tier 2 Bin 5 testing explained an awful lot about the seemingly magical engine we've been enjoying for the past five years. |
| The day after Dieselgate broke into the news, I was driving our TDI wagon around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Fake smoke added for effect. |