On June 26, the BMVI finally published the CO2 measurement results we had been waiting for. But in the interim the Ministry re-tested 29 of the original vehicle models. Only a subset of those results, data on 19 out of the 29, was published and in many cases, the vehicles show lower CO2 emissions during the retest than according to their official type-approval value. Those are impressively good results—and strikingly different than the initial results from 2016.
Ask people on the streets in Germany who they think is the most famous magician ever, and the name you would probably hear most is David Copperfield. Almost everyone knows him and is fascinated by his magic tricks. A specialty of Copperfield's is to make things disappear—a train, for example. Imagine an old train wagon from an Agatha Christie movie on the stage, a giant white bedsheet wrapped around it. Then, some flashing lights and effects, and when you refocus your attention—the train wagon is gone. Just disappeared!