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> There is, in fact, a position ...

While technically true, that's not who the article is about. People who roll coal are not doing it because they have significantly more performance that way.

I had one of the "evil" diesel Jetta's and I miss that car. 40+ MPG, great performance up/down hills, not excessively expensive. In the settlement, I had to choose between giving the car up and accepting a to-be-announced retrofit.

It never rolled coal but the emissions were still a lie; This is where credibility is lost, not the EPA.



> While technically true, that's not who the article is about.

It is, in fact, what the article is about. The entire article is just denying the existence of a middle ground position or the fact that there's a constrained optimization problem here.

`Second, the idea that emissions controls "ruin performance" is outdated.`

`Either you care about performance within the rules, or you admit you don’t care about the consequences of your actions.`

`Tuners have two choices... Keep crying about regulations while clinging to an outdated, polluting past... [or] Embrace innovation—developing high-performance, emissions-compliant solutions that don’t sacrifice power for legality.` (wow, talk about a GPT-authored sentence)




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