Thats the kind ofupifting outlook we need on all this negativity. You are a ray of sunshine. I’m guessing you drive a Lexus with a rebuilt engine. it was nobidy’s fsult really, and you were only without the car for 3 months.

Easy - a pre-dieselgate VW TDI with 100K. I know this because mine has 350K on it.

I understand that Jeep owners might be willing to take up arms in defense of their brand, but they are most loyal not loyalist customers Jjust for the record, Google voice does not know how to write or edit.

This “analysis” is incomplete at best. It doesn’t consider all of the costs of emissions and the impact on poor communities in making gasoline. Suggest the author take a cheap apartment in the PetroMetro on the Gulf Coast sometime. And are we to believe that the much higher CO2 emissions from fossil fuels than…

The system in Texas is working exactly the way it was designed to work. Mistaken faith in markets, when any sensible person understands that a critically necessary commodity like electricity cannot be allowed to disappear the way markets regularly vanish companies. The Texas view is there will always be someone to…

Easier to get a new family then lose your Passat. Just kidding, but a couple of CV joints and it’s right as rain.

Here is a tip for treating diesel stains from your 2000 TDI. I learned this from a German friend who is a chemist.

every Volkswagen I’ve ever owned suffered “The Misfortune” of a) lasting forever and b) having the headliner drop on my head after 2 years. Ok, Texas is hot and Illinois is cold

My son bought me an amazing audio interface for the old Monsoon sound system in my 20 year old diesel beetle. $59.

Great car to drive, as Bob Dylan said, after a war.

An outstanding article with, great attention to technical detail. I learned more from this than the last 20 dumb tearjerker weather stories about Louisiana. Thanks, Mattie!