Came here for this.

Paint it white and black and it could be a Stormtrooper.

Completely concur on the torque steer. Test drovw drove one coming from the AWD goodness that is an S4 and just about oncoming traffic when I floored the MS3 and it turned for me.

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So. Much. Overhang.

Even in America we have California enacting stricter laws than the EPA on a lot of things. Though rare to see, some vehicles/engines can get certified for “49 State”, meaning they aren’t legal for sale in California and a few other states that have opted into California’s stricter regs.

Do you miss the classic look of the two big gauges (speedo and tach) front and center? There’s something about watching a physical needle sweep across the gauge that I think I would miss with the Virtual Cockpit.

I know you are allowed to build once you submit your application to the agencies and while they are going over it, so long as you request to do so when you submit. But I’m not sure what would happen to those vehicles if you ultimately end up withdrawing that application.

Yeah, he should have raced harder like Marquez. Maybe throw his helmet into the knee of another rider or something. But he didn’t, which is why he crashed out in qualifying, even though he was doomed to start at the back of the grid regardless of where he qualified.

This way you can commute to town with your wife, then each go your separate ways once you get there.

These are far from the inevitable bumper stickers that I would expect to see on a Prius.

Speaking as a cert engineer for a mostly European-based manufacturer of diesel engines, there is definitely a mismatch between how Europe treats the regs versus America. They don’t treat OBD quite as seriously as we do here in America, at least in my experience.

Especially once the final financial penalty is understood. Nobody would want to pay out a tenth of what VW is going to be on the hook for, so instead they just don’t cheat.

Neutral: I would be shocked if it came out that many other manufacturers knowingly included defeat devices in their diesel offerings. It is one thing to tune a fuel map to a cycle to hit some numbers (everybody does this) but altogether a whole other thing to detect when you’re on a test cycle and run a completely…

This crease/feature reminds me of F12 Berlinetta.

Something similar happened with heavy duty diesel engines at Navistar back in 2010. Going against engineering, their CEO Dan Ustian insisted that they could reach emissions limits without the use of SCR. They even went so far as to sue the EPA and to vilify SCR and DEF as carcinogenic. The company still hasn’t…

As a perfect follow-up to the 4.2L V8 Audi post from a year ago, you should pick one of those up and document the daily dread of starting it up and hoping to Bob Lutz (according to R&T he’s the new car God, right?) that there’s no chain rattle and CEL.

Corvette’s have as much to do with the ignition switch scandal as my S4 does with the defeat devices installed in VAG diesel engines. So since you said you are laughing at Audi fanboys over this, I assume you are laughing at Corvette fanboys over the ignition switch scandal. Just because one VAG product includes an…

I’m laughing at VW and Audi fanboys right now.

Neutral: It will be interesting to see what new regulations get passed as a result of VW’s cheating. I can imagine they will implement manufacturer-finaced in use testing like they require on heavy duty diesels. May be a good time to look into founding a company to support this testing.