However, German boards tend to be far more involved in operations than simply showing up every few months for a hundred thousand dollar paycheck, a sweet meal or two and lots of patting each other on the back.

They typically have board members related to such specific things as engineering, design, factories, labor…

Kind of lazy on their part, right? How hard would it be to rewrite a couple of lines of code? Or ignore them?

So, if you double it and add 30, that’s like...41 million VWs.

Now that Suzuki has packed up their (four-wheeled) tent, Volkswagen has reclaimed the mantle as the worst dealer network in the country, something they have been working at in earnest since about 1979 or so.

Not advocating the OP’s premise here, but what do you think of the difference between GM’s coverup after the fact, and VW’s blatant fraud from the get go?

I say this because NHTSA backed off on individual prosecutions in their criminal case because of management “siloing.” In this case, someone, somewhere made a very…

Everyone in the VW P.R. department should get a raise. You, fellow readers, and I give a shit about Jalopnik, but there are a lot more douchebags reading the likes of Business Insider and a lot more connected people in the auto industry reading Automotive News.

That’s some class A freaking P.R. work right god damn…

Kimi, Jacques and JPM didn’t exactly rewrite the NASCAR/ARCA record books. And we’re talking champions and race winners in F1.

I’m a big fan of cars that turn left AND right, but NASCAR would not seem to be as easy as turning left and planting the right foot down, after all.

Wrong Afghans, Justin. The Taliban did not come about until a power vacuum in post-Soviet Afghanistan in the early-to-mid-1990s opened the door for them.

Well., Tucker made about 50 cars and Tesla is making 5,000 or so per month. I have been extremely skeptical of their viability since day one, but they continue to surprise.

Also, don’t forget that GM and Chrysler were losing money on every car they made in 2008/2009. And they were making a lot more than 5,000 cars per…

I don’t have the phone excuse. Just typing beyond my means.

A friend once showed up in court in a suit to fight a ticket and the clerk agreed before even seeing the prosecutor (every court is different, I suppose). When she was processing it, she asked what law firm he was with. When she found out he was just some dude who got a ticket, she was not amused, having assumed he…

What do you mean “if Elvis were alive?”

Damn fat fingers. That was supposed to say “no defense.” Sort of makes any point I was making, well, pointless.

Golf, despite the honorable nature of the game and the fact that everyone plays the same course, fails as a sport, simply because there is defense. The NHRA, with head-to-head battles and a very real potential to die, gets a pass on the no-defense rule.

Hah! Right you are. The caffeine hadn’t kicked in yet and my small brain was desperately trying to find the right word. Mille grazie.

True story. College. Umpteen years ago. Roommate have a ‘79 or ‘80, seemingly gutless four-cylinder Mustang. He thought he had perfected the technique that our featured asshat here clearly did not.

With just the tiniest bit of moisture on the road surface, his “Watch this!” moment left us sideways and when he corrected…

As much as actual “track time” is literally a fraction of that compared to other forms of motorsports, that literal feel of the power and speed is unique in the sport, rivaled perhaps by the first laps of an F1 race (pre-turbo-”power unit” era).

Why is it that every time I try and fix a little thing wrong with my car, I discover that I’ve got something else that I need to replace?

That’s old-school wingnuttery.

Honestly, I think the GM ads are bullshit, but my bigger question with Ford still has to do with the longevity of the EcoBoost and the fact that its mileage claims are bigger bullshit than the GM ads.

More on topic, I wonder if the cost difference in the repair average is for parts or labor. I can’t imagine that spare…