VW has the same problem with the Touareg. The TDI 'reg ranges from 51-60k and is rated at 20/29 whereas the T-reg hybrid starts at 64k with a 20/24 EPA rating.

I'm sorry, but, this refreshed Malibu in the picture is exceptionally handsome. Especially with the good looking wheels. I think its one of the most attractive cars in its class.

The streets of New York city are not the Autobahn. This wasn't simply going a few miles an hour over the speed limit, he was trying to set a record. The speed limit in huge sections of what he was driving was much less than 65 miles per hour. He ran at least 1 red light. He was weaving though traffic, and just because…

I severely disagree that all hoonage takes place on public roads. Hoonage occurs in parking lots, on race tracks, on off road trails in plenty of places that aren't public roads.

You make a mass generalization about pickup trucks (or 98% of them in your words), and claimed that I was in no position to tell people that…

You can be a safe defensive driver and still appreciate hoonery but only to a point. I don't appreciate hoonery that involves public roads, high rates of speed and a stop watch. Any time you're trying to break a record or public roads (that aren't the nurburgring) you have no justification for your actions, it's 100%…

I take much larger issue with the fact that he was timing a full lap versus "just" going 15-20 over during a cruise.

I feel like this whole discussion is so much worse because it's attached to an article about someone who, essentially, decided that she was not in a financial position to take the car. So you're arguing against someone whose point is refuted by the exact thing that caused them to make it. That's comedy.

So your logic:

Yes, because not applauding the actions of a person who needlessly endangers the safety of others and then brags about it on the internet makes me a sheep. Grow up.

Just because there is someone out there doing something worse than you doesn't justify doing something bad.

I think it's more unsettling that so many people don't have a problem with what he did in the first place.

Hopefully this will curtail any copycats. I hope his licence stays suspended, he has no business on a public road. Also to everyone saying "Taxi's and other people drive like that all the time" is no excuse and they should have their licences's revoked as well, this guy got caught because he put a video on Youtube and…

I have an '04 Jetta TDI with 228,000 currently on it. Things I've replaced other than normal wear items: Lift Pump and Tandem Pump after some bad fuel in desperation at a sketchy pump, EGR Cooler under recall which I'll soon be deleting, glow plugs and controller under recall, radiator fan #2, coolant temp sensor,…

I went from a B8 Audi S4 to a 2013 GLI (Its a long story I wont go into on here) and I was not at all disappointed or let down. The GLI trunk is just as big and the back seat actually has more room than the S4. Yes I am down more than 100 horsepower and I am missing All Wheel Drive but that is it. I have the other…

Also very observant. We have a '00 TDI that has had almost no issues and 300k (and on original clutch, though its about to go). I think the only thing we had to replace was a MAF sensor at 150k, and normal wear items like brake pads and some rubber bits. OTOH best friend had a Corolla (02 I think?) that literally…

I actually think the new Jettas are pretty good looking, especially the GLI, in an understated Audi-sort of way. And I think this would make a great family car. I had a rental Jetta once, and the rear seat room is insanely good for the class. So it ticks a bunch of boxes in terms of practicality, and in GLI form I…

It's simple, the engine compresses the air molecules so tightly together that they become enraged like a bunch of soccer hooligans. When the fuel gets injected near the end of the compression stroke all of the air is like, "OY! Get the hell out of here!" to which the fuel replies, "Dude, we didn't ask to be here.…

Ye of little faith.

For instance: having someone blow-torch your nipples off.

I say great job and congratulations, Ms. Russell. Success in business trumps owning a G6 any day of the week, and I'm sure it will have effects way beyond the life of that car.