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On the “rolling coal” vehicles, no such trickery is involved, and the trucks are not pretending to control pollution -- polluting is the point, as seen in this smokin’ hot video.

The Euro-market Golf TDI we drove was shod with summer-only 225/45-17 Dunlop Sport Maxx RT rubber, meats unlikely to be fitted on U.S.-bound TDIs (hey, at least we know they fit).

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The Ram pictured above “rolling coal” (soot-head slang for blasting a black cloud from the exhaust) makes a claimed 925 horsepower and 1800 pound-feet of torque. At the wheels.