Actually, manuals are harder.
Seriously, I've done both.

I've been in 4 deployment accidents now, only one of which needed deployment (imo) and I never touched the airbag... If you have a seatbelt and sit a reasonable distance back, it'll just burn you after the fact... That was my experience 1x as driver and 3x as passenger, anyways. I'd GLADLY drop 200 lbs of airbags out…

And you should be allowed to choose to have all that stuff in your car, or not. The premise of this article (blaming the mfr) is pretty ridiculous.

It's up to the consumer to decide if being safe is worth your money. Or perhaps you'd like to trade the extra 300lbs in safety equipment for more fuel economy, or speed, or…

Lmao, yeah, the car companies sat in meetings and said "You know what? I think Brazillians are shit compared to Europeans. Lets take the safety equipment out of their cars." Come on man, be reasonable. Please don't tell me you really feel like this happened, although I understand the sentiment.

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Isn't that a bit redundant?

It's a Taureg with some badges.

It'll make them loads of cash.

VAG didn't learn from GM — badge engineering will kill them over the next 20 years though.

You know what I often think?
Lets just take people's money based on how much they have, because "they won't even notice."

Stop giving props to that stupid zero fucks given rx7. PLEASE, PLEASE pick any of the THOUSANDS OF WELL BUILT v8 SWAPPED RX7s TO USE AS AN EXAMPLE.

The sound travels up the chassis, the greater length would just make the harmonics worse, it should sound even more terrible.

Uhh, because Corvettes and Mustangs and Cadillacs don't have V12s...

Actually, it's generally accepted as the reverse. In drag racing, dumping the clutch at a high RPM or having a high RPM stall torque convertor means that you will be in the HP part of your powerband for most of the track... TOrque not really being a factor.

Whereas on a circuit, shifting too often upsets the car's…

You get a pass because... Hydrogen has no future.
Carry on.

That's apples to oranges. They're nothing as a company in size or scale next to GM, make reasonable comparisons please.

While I'm at it:

We build the best engines in industry. Get over it.

You're clueless aren't you? You know the first people to make over 190 horse with a four cylinder in a production car? General Motors, 1989, Quad 4 195 hp.

G8 GT.

You're talking way too much sense for the majority of people here, my friend.

HP/L is meaningless. BSFC is the measure of efficiency, not HP/L, and you're damn right we want torque!