It’s "war" on the German carmakers

It’s "war" on the German carmakers

The European commission has proposed new emissions standards to limit the amount of carbon-dioxide levels emitted by cars manufactured in Europe. According to the Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking it is a war on the German carmakers. He said that the new norms will hurt the German carmakers more severely than their French and Italian counterparts. Wiedeking went on to describe the limits as a war-like assault, adding “it is an attack on BMW, Mercedes, Audi and ourselves, this is a business war in Europe. We will fight.” Well…I for one think that Mr. CEO here is overreacting a bit. I honestly don’t think that the European Commission cares much about Porsche to wage a “war” on them, as the first thing on their mind is to reduce pollution and take care of global warming.

The European Commission have committed to reducing vehicle emissions levels to 120g/km by 2012 and Porsche’s average emissions are currently more than double these figures. This maybe due to the fact that Porsche manufactures vehicles which are performance and luxury oriented and emit significantly more carbon-dioxide levels than the small efficient-hatches that come out of France and Italy.

The CEO should just stop complaining about such rules which are to be introduced and start thinking solutions to take care of this pollution problem. The issue of goal warming and pollution reduction is far more important that the German car company and nobody really care enough to go at “war” against them!