What a jerkoff, and what a waste of time. For a fraction of the money this guy spent, he could have gone racing in NASA or the SCCA. Then he'd be a racer, instead of a douchebag trying to calculate his way to fame.

The point is that Ford is bragging that this car on paper beats the Golf by 3 mpg. In the real world, where it actually counts, the Golf pulls down 48-50 easily. Your comparison about chips and everything else is completely invalid because comparing these two cars without any modifications is a big loss for the Ford.…

A whopping 3 mpg over the TDI Golf. Yawn. Seriously. I bet it has nowhere near the torque, nowhere near the build quality, and nowhere near the fun factor the Golf has. I'll take a Golf TDI and it's dismal 3 mpg disadvantage. Oh, and 42 quoted for the TDI is way off. I've driven road trips cruising 75 with two dudes…

Ford might brag about beating the Golf TDI's EPA highway numbers, but any TDI owner knows those are a joke. Real-world highway mileage regularly runs in the upper 40's for those cars. Hell, my '12 Passat TDI gets up to 46 highway with the DSG trans.

And they said the C-Max would get 47 MPG. Lets wait and see what it really is.

I will add that J.Lo hasn't been a relevant celebrity in 5 years.

Volt Dance.

I would be stoked to see a Gawker website dedicated to mountain biking itself. So much awesome stuff happens when two knobby tires and no motor are properly used.

Tucson?

Why does it need a diff? Where is the driveshaft?

Please tell me you and a friend pulled a Laverne and Shirley every day after work - skipping down the sidewalk arm in arm. That is how I picture every person who works in the alcohol industry, whether or not that person is involved in manufacturing/bottling. Hell, I would probably do it just because working around…

I'm not a drinker (ever since working at a beer and wine distributor here in Portland, OR — side note, there are 3 types of employees there: alcoholic, never touch the stuff, and new employee who hasn't fallen into one category or the other), but I dig Rogue's XS Russian Imperial Stout.

Who the hell thinks that would be good?

It pains me to say this, as Rogue is probably my favorite brewery in the States, but my lord is that an awful beer! You'd think it'd be good, but it isn't. It just isn't.

If BMW had it, would it automatically take up two spaces?

Yep! I have the nav version of your radio and the fancier climate control, and I love how it's all easy to adjust without looking. Even the stuff that does require the touchscreen is pretty easy because the buttons are so big. But I try not to use those functions while the car is moving.

Again, I step on the world's most pathetic soapbox to call for the implementation of a manual CVT.

Synthesized engine noise being piped through the speakers. Why bother with this? Why not just make the car sound better? And the worst part is that the BMW M5 is the type of car this is on. That's right, the top of the line twin turbo V8 5-series has fake engine noise as a "feature".....On a tiny hot hatch meant to…

At least if this were more common, the idiots at my office wouldn't have to re-park when they back into a spot. If you can't hit your spot on the first try, you don't deserve the 10 seconds you save at the end of the day.

CVT's with designated ratios. Defeating it's own purpose.