I thought the same thing. The resto job was pretty good but when I heard 5.0 I was utterly disappointed to find out it was a 302 and not a coyote. Its definitely worth it to someone but I would have preferred the original motor to the pretty-old-but-not-quite-as-old motor

Gotta say no dice. There’s too many weird little mistakes as Rob highlighted, and I just don’t think it’s worth $17k.

We’ll, they don’t offer the other two, and it is sometimes nice to hold higher revs, even with a CVT. Even boring cars sometimes want to hold speed going downhill. 

I thought he was converting it to electric. This might work better, it’s also made of plastic

LOL! I mean, it’ll probably run for all of 30 seconds before the plastic finds a way to rust out.

Hi Mercedes,

IKR?  Ever since Ford, they’ve been horribly reliable.

ECU meddling plus resonator delete = asshat owner and abused car. No sale.

NP

Unfortunately they won’t even give it the 1.8Tsi. There are very few tuning options for the 1.4 but at least if they did the 1.8, all of the 2.0 mods fit that engine as they are both EA888 blocks. 

This is Erik, he is so pessimistic because of his utter lack of self-care during the last year that he can’t seem to find anything positive in his life. “New crossover? Must be terrible, better not even review it and just tell people how bad it is”.

This is an ex-Gawker site

Exactly. If you check US sales, the redesigned Tiguan (2018 MY) sold 4x the volume of the previous model year, and more than 2x the best previous Tiguan sales year in the US. The Tiguan accounts for approximately 1/3 of US sales volume.

I’m pretty certain Jalopnik is now just reading the published specs for height and ground clearance, and if they meet certain thresholds, tall = bad, short = good. They could probably develop some software to write these little opinion pieces. Just feed in the new vehicle’s specifications, a couple pictures and in a…

The article mentions that it’s heavily related to the Atlas and Tiguan, both cars that are very well known to be Fine™ but ultimately bland, generic, American-targeted SUVs. The GTI, and especially the mk7, is known to be made by people who give a damn about driving.

This is an Erik post, after all. Shitty journalism is his brand.

The problem I am facing is the value of my car keeps rising to the point where the offer from Carvana is only $3k less than I paid for my car 2.5 years ago. And it's a used Volvo which means the value should have fallen through the floor by now. 

On the house front you have the possibility of getting it both ways and you could break even. You sell your home for more, but put that money towards the buying the next one. It worked that way for my mother last month.

My daughter’s car died on her a few weeks ago and I was nervous as heck about the whole car buying process right now. We had to buy something otherwise, we would not have stepped foot into a dealership during this time. We were lucky to get a deal on a 2-year old vehicle that will reliably get her back and forth to…

I dunno, I just replaced my wifes’s 2013 Ford Fista on Saturday with a 2020 Jeep Renegade Limited and got it for 10k under invoice.... Just gotta be patient and cast a wide net. A deal will pop up eventually.