It's the tires. If you look closely at the tires around the track they look sad, crying little tire tears

I wouldnt be concerned but I’d be worried that the guys would get all vacuumed up in the jet engines.

Damn it, I did too. That first pic totally looks like a Beluga whale jumping out of the sand.

Sorry to sound like a broken record but my instant reaction of ther first photo was: “Another Corvette Article...”

The hat wins the dumbest hat award in my book.

Dude, I wasn’t the one getting all huffy over someone commenting over the relative crappiness of VW products. If you think I’m the only one who thinks this then you haven’t spent much time on this or other automotive sites. vW’s reliability problems are well known and documented by pretty much all automotive journals,…

Even when new I always thought these things simply looked pretty much like a fancy fartcan.

It looks like they simply stuck it on garden tractor tires and installed some pep boy gauges

Ok, then I’ll take my family’s own experience with the combined 20 or so Toyotas and Hondas of which probably more than half had well over 250,000 miles before they were traded in. Of those, none and I mean like NONE ever had any issues. If what you are going by are on your own personal experiences and that is your…

Why should this be a surprise? Seems par for the course that VW would make something unnessesarily complicated or try to improve on a time-tested manufacturing method.

I feel that using long term reliability reports as a measure of my response was sufficient. Likewise I am sure there are a few Yugo owners out there who had flawless ownership experiences with their cars. But that doesn’t automatically mean the manufacture was a good one.

Where? Pretty much all of the long-term reliability reports over the past few decades as well as from personal experience. My MIL’s VW Jetta TDI is the biggest piece of shit. Hers and probably about 45% of those whom I know who own these.

Most country stations are all basically the same autoplay station nationwide anyway. The even have one here in San Francisco and the last time I listened a year or so ago they played the sane songs in the same order every single day.

I am originally from Nashville so I “should” be more supportive. But that music is shit. It annoys me too that a lot of washed-up musicians convert over to that form. Says a lot about the medium. Cash would be ashamed. At least the Americana movement is finally catching on.

If you had checked just a month ago or so VW was No.1. Will they go away? Maybe... Maybe not. But falling from No.1 to no.3 is a pretty steep decline.

The plastic grill would likely shatter in a million pieces if you did

His trick was to “go country”... Meaning pop country.... Meaning music for people who don't know shit about what good music is. And hence he's still here.

Cars are pretty internationally sourced and built these days anyway. Look under the hood of most any car and it’s probably a mix of Canadian/German/American/ Japanese/Korean/Italian. Perfect example: my 2011 Chevy volt was engineered in the U.S. And Is About 45% U.S. Sourced parts with the rest coming from Japan,…

I for one find their “ Power of German Engineering” tagline obnoxious. Mainly since VWs tend to fall apart after the first 50,000 miles. So I guess they can cover it up with some generic nationalized statement. I can’t imagine the reaction in Germany if Ford started selling cars that said the same thing but was about…

.... This is on a whole different level. GM received around 33 Billion in assistance. The projected costs to VW prior to this announcement was mentioned as having a potential of 87 Billion. The story isn’t even over yet and so the financial impact is still growing.