I’m not huge on the the Leaf’s looks, but I do like having the hatchback simply for the utility and storage space.

It could have competed against the Maserati Kubang, a car named after the noise it makes when it inevitably breaks down.

I believe it has the 1.4L Multiair engine used in the Dart, 500, and Renegade.

The Sedan looks like someone shrunk a Chevy SS.

I’ve got a 2014 Jetta Hybrid and it’s been a pretty reliable daily driver. Gets pretty good fuel economy versus the TDI, but the current version is pretty expensive when compared to a standard Jetta.

He looks a little like General Kota from The Force Unleashed

GOG has the game Final Liberation. It’s based off of the older Epic 40k rules that simulates huge battles but it's as close to the tabletop that I've played.

In the crossover/SUV front the problem is that the Tiguan is too small and the Toureag is too expensive. They’ve already got the MQB platform with the Audi Q7, they could build a new body and interior for a new VW SUV.

Which is the problem, VW needs products that the US market wants to buy. At least attempting to understand what the customer wants is important, and attempting to tell them what they want doesn’t really work out.

That is pretty much the entire last scene in The Dark Knight Rises.

A Polo GTI with the 1.8T from the regular Golf would also be in Fiesta ST territory. You’d have something closer in spirit to the original Golf GTI at a lower price point.

That 1.4T in the Jetta makes 150HP and 148 ft-lbs torque. You’d get similar fuel economy to the Fiesta with a slightly better power to weight ratio. Plus the Tiptronic or DSG behaves a lot better than the Ford Powershift.

The people complaining about millenials living with their parents are the people who are trying to sell mortgages and overpriced apartments/condos.

On one of my internships I worked with a bunch of “contractors” around my age and we’d review and correct part drawings that got farmed out to an “industrial design” firm over in Bangladesh.

It’s not that there is a shortage. There’s a shortage of people with those degrees who want to get paid peanuts for their skill-set. So they just get people with H1-B visas.

Historically and in other cultures children live with and help support their families in adulthood. “Leaving the nest” is a relatively modern thing.

A brass era EV is actually a pretty neat idea. You could bring back things like the old 1907 Detroit Electric with a modern electric motor and battery chemistry.

Most of that mass is the battery pack.

I’ve got a 2009 Rabbit with the 2.5L 5-cylinder and the 6-speed Tiptronic, outside of oil changes every 10k miles and fresh spark plugs at 60k it hasn’t given me any trouble in 70,000 miles of ownership

It might be the assembly or overall engineering.