I wish everyone would stop acting like shocked nuns finding themselves in a brothel about this so called cheating.
Car makers have been sailing as close to the wind as they could for years to try and get all possible advantage over their rivals, and along the way they employed some wide boys who massaged the accepted rules, they took the ■■■■ and got caught and have been sacrificed to the wolves, if they hadn’t got caught they had rosy futures as feted high flyers so long as the lolly kept rolling in.
It’s only a media fuss because there’s some big money to be made here, the vast profits these companies made as people bought each new cloned heap is now ripe for apparently lawful plunder, and the army of climate change/emergency/catastrophe/disaster politicos apparatchiks celeb hypocrits and various lackeys who live in a different world to the rest of us smell a huge power grab in the air to put massive taxes on a now demonised Diesel, which 5 minutes ago was the saviour of the atmosphere, and are using this to attack the very notion of personal transport.
Or rather they want personal transport to be as it once was, for the elite, ie them, and us proles can do our best to mince around the latest stabbing victim dying on the pavements of our capital city and towns up and down the breadth of the country, hoping we arn’t next.