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What kind of deal did the EPA and the feds strike with VW to allow them to keep importing diesel cars? I worked for chrysler, at the time they were working on offering diesel engines for virtually every vehicle in their line up. I know, I drove the prototypes. They had phenomenal power and mileage. The EPA told them NO, they cannot be sold on the US market, period. Daimler dumped Chrysler the following year. The funny thing is, the engines we were running in the prototypes were made by the same company that made them for VW. The EPA is a racket shakedown scam, completely devoid of any scientific principles.

I had a 1993 audi 100 full size sedan. 2,5 5 cyl inline turbodiesel. It had mpg of Prius 20 years ago and it wasn’t a dog either. 120 mph easily to keep up with traffic on autobahn. Modern diesels are way ahead. Germans have diesels on luxury cars outperforming larger displacement gas engines in hp and torque at better mpg than average American compact.
For example a European market 7 series BMW 730d has a 3 liter inline 6 diesel as powerful as 306 hp. It takes 6 seconds 0-60, it can go 160 mph. It is a large luxury sedan and it does 34 mpg city/highway.
There are no Pruis and Volt in Europe, they don’t need it and laugh at it.