@BrocLuno: AFAIK, it's exactly the same engine. The same references for all pieces, but I couldn't swear to it (I haven't compared all parts, one by one).
I guess the answer it's more related to fashion or inertia than complex mechanical requirements, but it's only a hunch. Anyway, well reasoned.
What I don't find so well reasoned is "EU Gov't don't seem to have any problem muzzling the press in that eastern version of your State."
Muzzle the press? Mmm. I'm not fluent in English, but a muzzle is...
In Spanish exist the same idiom "
amordazar a la prensa", muzzle the press. Seriously, do you think in the European Union governments can or could muzzle the press???
It's absolutely off-topic, but seems very interesting commenting this sample of chauvinism (qué manía de creerse el ombligo del mundo!). It's a personal perception or it's a widespread idea in USA about Europe? That is what usamerican media said of us, that here press freedom is endangered by governments?
HAHAHAHAHA. MUAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
And do you think there are in USA such a thing as free press?
Actually, is the opposite. Governments are terrified of mass media, because if they want, they could take away thousands of votes and knock down a party with an adverse campaign. And governments are not able to do anything about that. Medias don't belong to governments (unless public TV channels), medias belong to big corporate conglomerates (banks, telcos...), who use that medias to defend their own interest (opinion makers it's the English idiom?).
And journalists must submit to that goal, that corporate interest of the owners (self-censorship)...or get fired.
El patrón manda, in Spanish. Boss give the orders. And that's valid for you in your work, and the same for a journalist in any newspaper or TV channel.
I'm speaking of Europe, of USA and the rest of the world. If you have money to publish a newspaper or broadcast a radio or TV channel, you can decide what and how news, information, is told. And if you don't have, you can't.
Your opinions, your interest are invisible.
Returning to oils. I don't know API, but ACEA only publish its specifications, without further verification. Testing correspond to blenders, normaly oil companies, the most ethical corporate sector in the world.
If Shell,
verbi gratiae, assert Helix Ultra fulfill ACEA C3 spec., we have to trust in them, because we, citoyens, don't have de means to verify if that statement is true. I suggest that State must control that statement is true, with independent tests (the same with food, medicines or any other product, cars, for example, since you mention the VW scandal). It's my opinion, and you don't agree with them. I ask you, then: Do you think that there's something as the "right to lie", and is included in the economic freedom?