[Spktyr]

Negative. VW made vehicles that they claimed were compliant, then went on HUUUUUUUUUGE marketing campaigns claiming that these vehicles were suuuuuuper clean and that they weren’t the old polluting diesels of yore. Hundreds of thousands of people were conned into buying the cars on the basis that the cars were ‘clean.’

Here’s just one of the many VW ‘clean diesel’ ads they ran for the better part of a decade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNS2nvkjARk

Here’s part of one of the print ads:

http://www.brandchannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/volkswagen-clean-diesel-tdi.jpg

They committed consumer fraud on a massive scale.

[knarf]

I can't believe you actually posted those examples to "prove" I didn't say what I said

In fact, I DID say what you set out to "prove"

And, BTW ... neither of those ads are really any gross violation of any law or directive

Here;

"Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web."

An opinion that, if there was an environmental directive determining "premier" ... we might lose the case