DPF’s were introduced in around 2005 by VW/Audi on some vehicles, and as standard on all diesels a little bit later , 2008? when they became EURO5 compliant. Before that they would ‘smoke’ under hard acceleration.
It is the EURO5 vehicles that are subject to this problem, any VW before 08 is not in the frame as I understand it.

Pedant mode engaged

The photos of belching jets and steam trains is amusing, but fundamentally inaccurate as NOx is invisible. Modern Diesels have particulate traps to remove visible soot so the vehicles in question would never smoke like that even if the ‘defeat switch’ was activated

Disengage pedant mode

But since the vast proportion of the public are engineering illiterates ( not this forum, obviously) images like these will reinforce VAG’s problem.
I speak as an owner of a vehicle with the engine in question, I’m just waiting to have a letter come through the door. I’m not going to hold my breath ( do you see what I did there?…)

When were YOU last weighed before boarding a plane? What airlines do this as a matter of course? Name names of airlines please!

The last time I flew to the Isles of Scilly on an N-B Islander I was weighed and placed in a given seat as a result. Skybus operates scheduled services with Islanders from Land’s End airfield to St. Mary’s.

Their services using Twin Otters do not require passengers to be weighed.

Edit:
Just in case anyone wondered, I weighed 85kg

I saw this on another forum. I hadn’t really thought about it in these terms but it must be of real concern to the England management.

Wales travelled to Twickenham short of how many 1st choice players? Wasn’t it 5 from the intended squad. They fielded an inexperience wing, the 2nd choice scrum-half, an injured full-back and a massively under-powered front row. They then lost another 3 players through the game.

And won.

In Twickenham.

England had all the advantage.

Australia however will probably rip Wales to pieces after yet more injuries

(England need to be more than a little concerned about the selection, and the performance and replacement policy.)

It is still theoretically possible for England to progress.
Wales beat Fiji, England beat Aus, Aus beat Wales, but eng & Wales qualify because Australia didn’t think about bonus points?

Hope the pie tastes good John.
The best team in the second half won in the end

Should they have kicked for points? They could have ended up heros, like the Japanese.
unfortunately….

I am astonished that you and they are not more bothered by the billions that the UK will be paying the Chinese to build nuclear power plants here.

£3m is peanuts compared to that, not to mention the loss of dignity.

Strange for them to complain about Gideon as everybody knows the TPA is a Tory eurosceptic front. jonathan Isaby used to be deputy editor of Conservativehome.com
From an article from spinwatch:

In the aftermath of the 2010 general election the Taxpayers’ Alliance held a roundtable meeting to discuss the Conservatives return to power. Attendees included Eurosceptic think tanks Global Vision and Open Europe.32

Although the TPA claims to represent all taxpayers, such links suggest that its main interest lies in taxpayers of the Eurosceptic tycoon variety

This article shows how a lot of their support comes from Tory donors
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group

http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/joe-emersberger/item/219-a-closer-look-at-the-taxpayers-alliance

pob lwc cymru.
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Yes, agreed, but there isn’t anything inherently different about the combustion in a turbocharged petrol engine that makes it produce less CO2; the improvements, as you say, are due to smaller losses of power by virtue of it being a smaller engine.

Would cylinder deactivation be of any benefit in a diesel engine? Surely the fuel to each cylinder can be reduced to the point of zero anyway without bothering to hold any valves closed? On a petrol engine, yes, I can see the point of three cylinders running full-throttle rather than six at part-throttle, but a diesel isn’t ‘throttled’ in the same way so where would be the benefit?

I think you misunderstood my original comments on this. I was referring to the CO2 emitted per vehicle between a modern Turbo petrol and diesel are getting closer because of the use of smaller more efficient petrol motors.

I also was referring to petrol engine cylinder deactivation, to my knowlege it hasn’t been done with diesels as they effectively have no physical throttle as you say which is one of the reasons they still have the efficiency gain over petrols