The thing with VW and their U.S. Sales is that when it comes especially to their TDIs an awful lot of the buyers of those cars did do specifically for the fuel economy as well as the cars having a certain image and cachet for .... More yuppyish type buyers. If in turn that whole clean diesel and fuel economy was s…

Yes. I heard about that on the news. I think the reason is because the potential for damage to the brand is still not fully known in regards to the extent of the outcome. This whole thing is one gigantic cluster fuck.

Nope. That car might as well be called problems on wheels.

That in one word s pretty terrible!

The thing is that the market for VW is huge in California. There are simply tons and tons of these TDIs on the freeways here. Whenever I visit elsewhere nowhere close to the volume.

Then your car won't likely pass inspection

You’ll have to have the fix done for sure in California or the card won’t pass smog. And yes- this intentional circumventing is particularly nasty and will do more to tarnish vw’s reputation than their reliability ratings.

If you're in a state like California you can almost be assured owners will have to have the cars fixed. Given that these sre way more popular in California there will be a lot of cars going on for the fix

So here’s what I want to know. I assume this “defeat” device will be removed on existing cars. If so I also assume that will affect fuel economy. So hence a ton of possibly pissed off consumers?

Is it?

Ahhhhhh yeahhh... Wouldn't be complete without that same damned comment. Yes- because we all know that drilling for oil, refining, and even the production of lead acid batteries is so clean...

That is pretty cool actually. Dig those lights.

Jeb is to me a bit like McCain before he decided to be goaded into running a witchhunt and then chose ( or had chosen for him ) Palin. At first he seemed like he was a rational, reasonable person. After the choice of Palin... forget it. Jeb also seems like he is also fairly reasonable and compared to the rest of the…

I agree with what you say about the 2 in reserve. By the time they do go into reserve the things are frankly worn-out. But even so what I was trying to indicate initially was that we have 10 active carriers. Now when you put that into consideration look at what China has for example. They have a carrier built out of a…

I once worked at a nasty diner in college and the line cook drove an 80’s oldsmobile delta 88 that has rod knock. The amazing thing is that her drove that fucker for over 6 months like that. I could only imagine the holes being beaten into the cylinder wall. He eventually drove it into an abandoned field.

I’m also a more moderate liberal. But to me the current batch of GOP hopefuls are so far removed from anything resembling reality that there might as well not even be a GOP contender. That said the only person who seems somewhat sane is Jeb Bush but he seems to be getting drowned out by the others.

Well... not sure its fear really. I think its more about disbelief. None of these guys have a remote chance as soon as they get out of their current conservative polling bubble. The second they do they will get trounced because they aren’t at all an appeal to anyone else. They are entirely reliant on their base at…

Does it really matter anyway? She doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of even getting the GOP nomination anyway....

Stop giving attention to these clowns. They’re an embarrassment to this country.

Indeed I read your words and my statement still holds true. Whether past or present tense the U.S. Baby is the single largest navy in the world.