Nothing on that front end fits together. This has either seen an accident and been really poorly repaired (would check title for washing considering its listed as clear), or dingus decided to take everything apart to smoke the headlamps, lacking the basic competence to reassemble it properly. Both red flags. Might be…

VW took what was a fantastic and highly function interior and turned it to garbage with the new MK VIII GTI. I’m presently on my 4th consecutive new GTI (2018 Autobahn 6 speed manual with 31,000 miles on it). The interiors played a large role in my decision to buy all four of my GTIs from 2010 - 2018. Given what…

Crazy how much weight they were able to shave off. But a full time AWD car coming in at less than 3300 lbs today is impressive. The Core is at least 150-300 lbs less than its current AWD competition and what it would have competed against had it been released 5 years ago.

While I’ll admit that the new Civic Type R is about 1000% more appealing than the last, I’d drop my $40k on this waaaaaay before the CTR. This has a much, MUCH more special drivetrain and is much more justified at that price as a result. This is even more special than a Golf R, they’ve made haldex pretty good these…

Thanks for pointing out that the interior has knobs and buttons... as it should. We need to keep reminding VW that we want knobs, buttons and switches in our hot hatches and many of us will not buy them again until they do. 

Here’s the question everyone’s been waiting for the answer for:

That image is stressful to look at for a Ferrari designer.

Something has broken in my head when I see a $55k MSRP, and think it seems reasonable. I guess it just feels less ludicrous than most car prices I see these days.

Holy crap

One might get you around a track pretty fast... but the other will actually get you all the way home!

wowzers that’s uncanny

overall it just looks like the Toyota Crown Sport

This is late stage capitalism, the car. 

I think the design has aged very well. It’s just what this guy has done to his car that makes it look bad. 

I think the design has aged very well, but in clean (stock) form. I think they are still pretty cars (and look better than their Stealth stablemates).

My point was they made the decision because they wanted to save money.

The fact VW spent money developing this and bringing it to the US, but won’t give us real buttons in a GTI is a fucking joke.

I was making a joke referencing everything that needs to be paired to a phone or require a subscription nowadays.

911 owners have a system like this in which the exhaust catches particles of the tires and converts them into a heinous smell that wafts around the car for hours.

It’s funny when scientists who have never driven a car try to solve problems. I’m guessing it would surprise them to find out roads are covered with dirt and other partials that will fill up their silly little container pretty fast.