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I think your math is confusing people here:
"Dieselgate cars emitted 40x the legal amount."
40x the legal amount FOR DIESEL.
"roughly that means a dieselgate vehicle emitted 400x the NO2 of a gasoline car."
You're arguing that the legal amount for diesel is 10x that of a gasoline car, and by exceeding that 40x, they are more or less 400x a single gasoline car.
Now I don't know if any of that is actually TRUE or not, I'm seeing a lot of the weaselly "up to 40x", not that it was ACTUALLY 40X. It might have been 25x on average, we don't really know. Still awful.
But the piece you're missing is that dieselgate didn't impact ALL diesel vehicles, it was specific to Volkswagen group. So only VW and Audi, and even then, only the TDI models.
Well, first off, VW also includes SEAT, Škoda and Porsche that also use their diesel engines (Porsche no longer does after Dieselgate).
I'm also not sure what you mean by "only the TDI models". They haven't been making naturally aspirated models in decades. They're pretty uncommon these days.
Secondly, VAG was the first to get caught, but many manufacturers were cheating. Including Renault and Citroën, which I imagine might be moderately common in France.
Uh no I'm saying the actual amount is 40x and 10x. Not legal, actual.
And uh no I clearly have the number for specifically dieselgate affected vehicles. (Well 10x is for all diesel if you're thinking of only that. 40x was dieselgate and "France had 984,064 dieselgate affected vehicles.)