Yeah, I was kind of seeing Ms. King’s point until she got to the Chef Boyardee part. At that point it was like, “oh, hello, unreliable narrator!”

Usually when I hear this from auto engineers, they’re talking about the minimum time between failures for the assembly, as specified to the parts suppliers and verified by testing.

^^^^ COTD

Oh, hell’s yeah. That, please.

I wish they’d gone a little further with the P-51 touches. Needs more toggle switches and chunky dials.

I’ve had sticks fail, too. I’ve come to think as every hood as a potential Hood of Damocles, ready to wallop me in the back of the head.

Goddamn it now I’m hungry.

Yeah, but in the case of the Passat, the prior platform was brought down from the Audi A6, and it’s quite nice. It handles very well and NVH is good. Its differentiated in the class by having the back-seat room of a Mercedes S-Class.

Yeah, it looks like it got shorter front-to-back, narrower, and more tall. Once again, longer / lower / wider is the better look.

TEABAGGN

The State of CA did let me have KEYPARTY for my very-swinger-era ‘75 Eldorado. There’s good stuff out there if you look for it.

You’re completely right.

The Chinese authorities understand this and are playing to it. They, of all cultures, know that “saving face” is the key driver of Trump’s actions.

Yes, it would make sense.

Honestly, if they brought back the Saturn Vue Red Line, it would sell like hotcakes.

*raises hand*

And if you have more than $5.5M dollars, you pay an attorney $10k to create a trust for you and the entire amount is sheltered from tax.

Yeah, the coil packs are shared with the New Edge Mustang Cobra. The fuel pump is shared with, IIRC, the Ford 7.3L truck motor.

That’s an interesting point. As a city driver, I agree. I really wish that BMW / Mercedes / Volvo would bring the long-wheelbase versions of their smaller models to the US for this reason.

Real answer: Because you can have a 420-horsepower manual-transmission V12 Aston Martin for *half* the price of an 850 6-speed.