That’s true. A lot of smaller trucks in urban areas would benefit greatly from a fully electric drive. I’d only worry about refrigerated trucks, since those guys gotta stay cold all the time and I imagine that compressor is run off the engine’s power? (no clue, not trucker)

I imagine a semi being fully electric means that it’s got a diesel generator powering an alternator to charge the battery bank.

Basically a train, but on the road. Seems like a pretty smart thing to do, and there’s already tons of information and what not on the platform since... trains have been doing it for a while…

For sure. I’d probably nix the tacoma leg, since that would get cluttered fast with air travelers. And the olympia to seattle would cut down on the traffic the tacoma folks feel heading into seattle since those extra cars would be training in.

Those trams though. Make getting from terminal to terminal not nearly as terrible.

I’m wondering the opposite for the portland/seattle one. The whole idea of being able to commute between the two would be so you could work in the big city, and live in a small town with reasonable housing rates.

We try to keep it small. 2 door golf is the perfect size for most of our tasks. We can put the 3 dogs in the back seat, stuff in the hatch, and if necessary, hook up the trailer and pull crap. We also have a first gen insight which is a great commuter, but sucks if you need to take the dogs anywhere since you can…

The spark plugs on my VW Golf TDI are IMPOSSIBLE to find without knowing a few tricks.

Sons of bitches at VW engineering I tell ya.

You have to consider that with the $7500 tax credit, and favorable lease terms, you end up paying like $200 a month to lease one for 3 years.

unreliable? By what standard?

As a 6'1 person, I think you may be sitting too far away from the pedals.

In my 2 door golf, there’s plenty of room behind me for passenger knees. In my Jetta, I can barely touch the pedals if the seat is all the way back, and with the seat all the way back there’s still room for children. At the proper driver seat…

Dude, there’s no “chef” in an applebees kitchen.

Still over 500lbs heavier than my aluminum god mobile - the Honda Insight

You know that VW owns all of those brands right? Ducati, Porsche, Lamborghini...

HOW DARE YOU. The Baja is a hero. GTFO of here “useless”. Just because it’s ugly doesn’t make it suck. The aztek was a solid utility vehicle, but it was ugly and nobody cared enough to see how great it was.

Judge usefulness by actual usefulness, not appearance.

I’d hazard that part of the issue is that old ruling about limiting their ability to sue. Because if we’re honest, IH is all about preventing law suits in the name of personal safety.

If these guys could sue, or their family’s, etc. I bet things would change real damn fast, and each one of these companies would have…

Still, not something that isn’t on pretty much every car manufactured in the last decade and a half.

And if we’re being honest, you’re gonna need it what, one time over the life of you owning the car? I just changed my pads/rotors on my golf that has 120k miles on it, pads were easily 3/8ths life left, and rotors were…

You’ve never replaced your windshield wipers, tires, or batteries on your cars? What do you do, drive a car for 6 months then get a new one?

I’m kind of curious as to how much diesel fuel is sitting in these lots trapped in all of these tanks?

You realize almost all modern cars with ABS require those for the rear calipers, right? That’s not a VW specific thing. Thats a car specific thing.

When was the last time you drove a vw? 1996?

I’ve got 200k miles on 2 different modern vw’s and have had the gas cap plastic tether break, and lots of batteries, windshield wipers, and flat tires. That’s it.

I think your aunt was doing it wrong.