It definitely sounds like PR spin. “We’re killing the stick in the US because of UK emissions.” Just say it’s about cost savings.

They have pretty close to a 50% manual take rate on the GTI... but that’s in a car that sells 6k units right now, in a company that has an overall manual take rate around 4%.

They should have just programmed the ECU of the manual cars to know when they are on a dyno and have them keep under the 160g emmission requirement while being tested.

Advertising... they want to be able to project advertising right into your driving field of vision...

A windshield replacement is going to be able to total your car now. Yay.

Helmets come in too many shapes/sizes/styles to be viable for a niche product like this. This would be compatible with nearly every helmet style in existence (including those without face shields). Plus, if they are using google glass style projection that focuses on your retina, that is a lot more difficult when…

“Let’s shoot this piece of shit!”

If comfort in heavy traffic was the only consideration when buying a car, then they wouldn’t even be shopping for a GTI. 

Counterpoint: why the fuck not? My parents got me a cheap auto (beat up old V50) to learn to drive on and I’ll always be incredibly grateful for that, but it means that I’ve never learned to drive stick and my options to learn now are limited. Sure, it’s not a critical skill, but it’s still a fun one to have, and now…

Teach them to drive stick after they’ve mastered driving a 3500 pound vehicle through traffic

Every starter pokemon should be available in every  Pokemon game... why am I seeing one starter group from a few gens and complete skips for others?!

When someone says a Ditto (or any Pokémon) has “perfect IVs,” I assume they mean all six IVs are at the maximum value of 31. With this raid, five of the six are guaranteed to be 31, but the remaining value will fall randomly somewhere between 0 and 31. So not quite “perfect.”

As someone considering an EV really soon, there can only be 2 ways to go about maintaining an EV battery:

Should have used this image instead

It would probably be the most united the states have ever been.

I know he was banned in our dormitory, that’s for sure.

Now I want to see a map showing where Odd Job is banned in Golden Eye :)

They better get Devito for this one.

No, gaslighting based on the score would be if the game told the player all racers were weighted the same, and that the player must be imaging that they’re being penalized for being a certain character. The player “feeling tricked or lied to” doesn’t make it gaslighting. Gaslighting is about convincing the person…

Instead, the secret point bonuses led people to feel gaslit about how difficult it was to achieve three stars on lighter characters.