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Crosswired or crossfired?

People still drive cars around with 50 or less HP and do just fine.  

Isn’t this true in most states?   Exactly the same here in Indiana.  

Yes, I love this car, however I drive a 5 year old 328i wagon with a very mild tune that is just as fast, AWD, relatively reliable, safer and has modern tech, and at 80k miles it is worth around asking for this Audi.   I’m nervous about driving a 5 year old out of warranty German car, can’t imagine dropping $20k on a

It really comes down to the buyer as much as the house value. The bank just needs to feel comfortable enough about your ability to make payments. If you have $750k in investments and little debt and are trying to buy an overinflated $500k house than the bank probably won’t have an issue lending you the money.   If

BRZ brought you to the dealership, and you left with a new Subaru, so it was a success for them having both?

4 door GTI’s are actually more beautiful to my eyes. The glorious curved C pillar which they brought back for the MK7.

Weren’t they recorded in the same studio session?   

Some generations had larger changes under the skin than others.  For instance from MK6 to MK7 they added 50 lb ft of torque, and the new MQB platform which really improved handling.  

Yes, but there are nearly 700 million wild pigs, so each car produces the same emission as 700 pigs. 

It looked good on high end cars when real aluminum was used.  The problem was that the trend tickled down to regular cars which used clear plastics horribly painted……. I drove so , many crappy Toyota and Hyundai rentals pasted with this stuff during those years.   

Tesla likely has a workaround…. And you likely won’t disconnect the battery of your electric car.  

They have to keep up with the competition.    Nobody is selling cars with crank windows and no AC these days…. And the GTI keeps the tech pretty subdued and the interior simple and cleanly styled.  I traded my 2015 GTI for a 328i wagon, and trust me the GTI feels very different.   Feels lighter, more fun, more

Volvo usually gets it right, but not here.  Much prefer the lower dash line that having the screen protrudes allowed.   Volvo had to raise the hole dash to integrate it.   Prefer the horizontal lines with nicely integrated vents.  

Yep. Every Honda I’ve owned has it beneath the glove box.   Takes 5 minutes.  

Yeah but the average Joe doesn’t want to yank his car bumper after work to replace a bulb… and that is going to cost at a dealer.

Yeah. I had an MK7 GTI among other VW’s and now drive an F31 BMW wagon. VW material quality is heads and tails above, Ford/Honda/Subaru but it isn’t quite to Audi level.  Audi has nicer plastics, more soft touch, etc….    They are luxury, where the VW is an extremely high quality/dressed up car with economy roots

VW has positioned themselves as a bit upmarket for awhile and these features fall in line nicely with other entry level luxury cars. Probably harder to defend a stripper hatchback for $37k.

The power to weight ratio of the ants in that museum far exceeds the VW.

Weird, my ‘14 328i wagon has them, but perhaps the wagons come better equipped,