It’s tamer than the current generation. In fact, except for the awkward lines around the wheel arches it looks a bit generic. On the other hand, it’s not offensive, so that’s a positive.

VW seems to go through this cycle every 15 years or so. They go bigger, more upmarket for a generation or two before they change their minds and go back to smaller and cheaper.

They offer it because in the rest of the world everyone buys the 1.4 liter, assuming something smaller isn’t available. When gasoline is expensive or you’re taxed on displacement performance drops on the list of priorities.

I never felt the need for heated seats until I got a car with leather. Now I use them all winter long. They’re like a blanket, keeping me comfortable well before the rest of the car has warmed up. That said, our second car has cloth and I don’t miss the heated seats when I get in that car.

To be fair, this is a new car from a new automaker. Problems are to be expected. There’s a reason why Honda and Toyota are so reliable beyond rigorous quality control. They’re more conservative about implementing new tech and emphasize iterative updates over major overhauls.

BBS has some great looking wheels, but these are not one of them. They’re too spindly and I don’t like the design of the hub.

If nothing else, the styling is a massive improvement.

Martino has said that MLS should move to a promotion-relegation model, but I’m not sure if it’s something he’d push for in the near term.

It happens all the time in Europe. How they compare to Americans, however, I can’t say. As for Japan, it doesn’t seem as prevalent because generally they are more mature and considerate.

I enjoy the sound of these cars better when they’re alone on the track. The whine makes them sound purposeful; something that’s absent when a whole field of these cars is sliding around and bumping into stuff. Normally, it sounds like a bunch of RC cars being knocked around.

Horses have always been expensive to own and care for, relatively speaking. Generally they were reserved for nobility and the military so your average person would have never ridden a horse, much less have a need for the skill.

From the side mirrors back it looks like a complete different car. The proportions, body lines and angles just don’t seem to match up.

There seems to be a lot of arrogance here for something so generic. This car looks like every other urban transport flight of fancy. They’re all over-styled, unrealistically ambitious designs wrapped in marketing BS.

I have to contend with I95 traffic every single day in Connecticut. Along with relatively high income and property taxes we also enjoy some of the highest gasoline tax in the country. However, you’d never guess it by looking at the condition of our roads.

It has nothing to do with oral health. People still see the dentist in other countries. Americans, however, fixate on having perfect-looking teeth.

I’ve lived in New England most of my life and only had winter tires for a couple of years. While they were better than all seasons they weren’t magic. I haven’t really missed them despite a couple of unusually snowy winters. In the end, I consider them a luxury more than a necessity, at least in my part of the…

This car’s lack of a jaw really bothers me.

I expect that the conductor of that train got a ton of shit for being early. Japanese management are demanding on a level that Americans can’t really fathom. And you see those expectations at all levels of employment, which is why you can walk into any convenience store there and the place is pristine.

You say that now, but I predict it will be a repeat of the 2016 Euros with a bunch of slow, defensively-minded games. In the elimination round weaker teams will all park the bus hoping to survive to penalties.

My Audi gives me the low fuel warning at 45 miles and will go down gradually to 0 at which point I have roughly 1.5 gallons left.