I think most car guys know that. or at least the vw guys. untill the world gets hit by a giant asteroid they will never shut up.
Most likely never because in Finland there is Pontiac Trans-Am that has been converted into a electric car.
In Sweden: If a car is equipped with a catalytic coverter and is from 1987 or older, it cannot be removed but it's not required to actually work. Every car that is 30 years or older is taxfree. I think it is the only country in Europe where you are allowed to use your cellphone while driving.
What's wrong with that? If it's done properly with modern engine and batteries, I'd imagine it would be amazing to drive. A quiet killer with instant torque. There's still quite a lot Trans-Ams out there anyway. I don't think most Tesla drivers or Mighty Car Mods guys (Marty and Moog) are "envirocommies".
in the netherlands the gouverment said: "buy small (diesel) cars so you are road tax free" so my dad bought a twingo diesel. 2 years later the gouverment put back the road tax for these cars so my dad pays road taxes that are so high, he can drive a BWM for that amount of money. they did the same with plug-in hybrids
$150k corvette. what the hell is wrong with Europe and Scandinavia? stop burning coal and give everyone a fire spitting v8. the environment will still be 5 times better off.
The thing coal rollers will never admit - black smoke doesn't mean speed or power or torque, it means the engine is operating well below peak efficiency and probably badly out of tune. It is, as far as I know, the result of unburned fuel getting dumped into the (hot) exhaust, which means you're throwing away both power and fuel economy.
After a quick search on wikipedia it came up with "Rolling coal is the practice of intentionally disabling the Clean Burn Programming of a computer controlled diesel engine, so that the vehicle can emit an under-aspirated sooty exhaust that visibly pollutes the air. It also may include the intentional removal of the particulate filter"
That's the other thing - smoke and soot indicate incomplete combustion, meaning that the engine is not getting enough air to form CO2 and is thus spewing far-worse CO or straight-up carbon.
Which is why they do it, or many of them anyway. There seems to be a split of "we're idiots that think we're making more power when we've losing a significant amount" and "WOO BURN THE ENVIRONMENT". But yeah you're right, its incomplete combustion that causes coal rolling.
