Hard Nox

Ford is under investigation for using defeat devices and faces huge claims, Honda, Toyota, everyone! It was just VW to be the first to get caught and they became the public scapegoat

Not a badly presented documentary, but sadly falls short of a true understanding of the car industry. Largely it makes the mistake of using the same sensationalist accusations that the mainstream media have made. Suggestions that driving a diesel VW was somehow killing people is absolutely ludicrous. The reality is that the number of hugely polluting older cars far outweighs the 'damage' done by a newer diesel VW. Not to say that VW weren't wrong for coding their engine calibrations to detect the emissions tests, but the impact has been far, far over blown.

It's clear that VW weren't the only people guilty of this, so why try and draw parallels with Hitler and the Nazi's? The reality is that VW was entirely saved by the Brits after the war, and, rather than translating Hitlers speeches and leaving 'Volkswagen' untranslated to make it sound like he was directly referring to them as a company, translate it to the actual meaning at the time of the speech which is 'Peoples Car'.

Overall, a decently presented, but heavily biased documentary which falls short of correctly understanding the technology behind the issues.

This entire documentary about Volkswagen is full of cheap shots. If you wanna criticize emissions, criticize the emissions, what has Hitler connection, or the fact that Piech had 12 kids have to do with emissions?

He takes up one point, that the VW cheated in emissions testing, and then tries to depict the company pure evil using Hitler connections and even private life of its CEOs. I have 1 question to ask to the narrator.. If the company was so bad even without the emissions scandal, then why did you buy the freaking car, and boasted with it? Are you Nazi? Are you philogynic?

I think neither. I think you're just biased, and a bad documentary maker who makes only cheap shots.

As a European, I feel the first episode is not about Volkswagen, but Europe. It sounds like the US is this amazing place that would never do anything like this. Like this is an exclusively European problem. I would love to see these tests done on American cars. Regulation in Europe is milion times better than whats going on in the US.

If I were to look away from the super stupid American perspective, yes it is interesting and it might deserve a better grade. It would have been a lot better if it didn't have a stupid perspective, but it does and can only be considered half decent.

Revealing documentary on the corruption that car companies go to, in order to fudge and bypass fuel emission limit regulations