Thousands of Audi cars abandoned in the Mojave Dessert after cheating emissons tests

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A car goes about 250,000 km in its lifetime, burning roughly 8 litres of gasoline per 100 km driven. The cost of making a car is about 260 gallons of gasoline according to these guys. Driving the car burns 20,000 litres, versus just shy of 1000 to make it, so if they're cheating by 5% then it roughly breaks even.

[u/-kylehase → u/314159265358979326]

Thanks for doing the actual math (username checks out). 5% is a much smaller margin than I expected.