If the remap is better in every way, why wasn’t it just made like that in the factory? What am I missing?

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    By sacrificing emissions.
    You can get more power per stroke if you don’t care about emissions, and that can get you a better fuel economy, but you may fail your local e-check if it’s tuned.

    Volkswagen got in trouble for designing their cars to change the engine tuning when it detected it was connected to a testing rig.