THE SOUTH KOREAN Government tested 20 different vehicles in the wake of the Volkswagen diesel gate affair and claims that the recently launched Nissan Qashqai contains a defeat device that turns off its emissions management gear under regular driving temperatures. The Japanese car maker has denied the allegation.
https://practicalmotoring.com.au/car-ne ... at-device/
In that same boat...some interesting history of Toyota cheatin' in motorsports:
Toyota has some of the best engineers in the world. Every car is inspected before the race by the governing body to make sure that the restrictor plate is installed. Toyota engineers figured out how to allow air in to the turbo intake that completely bypassed the seals around the restrictor! In addition, when the car was moving and the turbo was engaged, the restrictor plate would be moved back a couple of inches completely nullifying the effect of the restrictor plate. Some of the best judges and techs had gone over the car to make sure shenanigans like this weren’t taking place. In fact, the engineering was so good that when the turbo was disassembled post-race for inspection, judges couldn’t find any evidence that extra air had passed through the turbo. Toyota had manufactured special springs and clips that would move the restrictor plate back from the air intake, but when the turbo was disengaged the springs would pop it back in to position making it appear that everything was kosher. Like a sprinter, the more the engine could breathe, the faster it could go.
Max Mosley, the president of the FIA at the time said this: “Inside it was beautifully made. The springs inside the hose had been polished and machined so not to impede the air which passed through. To force the springs open without the special tool would require substantial force. It is the most sophisticated and ingenious device either I or the FIA’s technical experts have seen for a long-time. It was so well made that there was no gap apparent to suggest there was any means of opening it.”
The device gave the car an estimated 25% extra air coming in to the turbos, which added an extra 50 BHP (brake horse power)to the car. The cars raced in WRC at the time had about 300 BHP, an extra 50 BHP gave the car a HUGE advantage. The FIA quickly moved to ban TTE from racing that year. Toyota lawyered up, but they were eventually banned for the rest of the 1995 and 1996 season.
http://crasstalk.com/2011/03/cheatins-s ... heat-ever/
kurogane wrote:You are suggesting they want to be regarded as individuals there, and that they regard you as one, which suggests another big Egyptian river of your own
but but but they do! they really do! (on a case by case basis)
). But not in this Toyota case, or those pigfuckers at VDub, FTM, though I might go look at a 3 year old VW diesel now that the market price has dropped.
We're like spastic cockroaches on a burning garbage heap worrying about whether or not we are still getting first dibs on the unburnt stuff. And we started the fire.
