Re: Anyone else notice the DEAFENING SILENCE from the other car makers?
I wonder why...
Not for the reasons you think I suspect. Not everybody has test-defeat software, but because the tests are so flawed anyway because of industry lobbying, the other makers aren't going to crow about VW's shame. So the other makers worked to comply with tests they'd lobbied to make fairly meaningless. VW then went one step further, and cheated to meet even those standards.
But you have to take your hat off to the German government who were lobbying the EC to conduct future emissions testing on downhill sloping tracks.