I was thinking the same exact thing. My Sportwagen fits 2 kids, the wife, a trunk full of stuff, the 1.8 is a great little engine that’s fun to throw around with paddle shifters, and I can still average 35mpg driving however I want. And, I paid 19k. The interior of these two even look pretty similar. Why would I spend…

So pretty much, it’s a Chevy trying to be a Buick. It looks pretty, but really its competition is the Outback & VW Golf Sportwagen. I want to love this car and justify buying American, but it’s 20k more than my Sportwagen, and the interior is nearly identical. Come in loaded at the high 20s at the dealership, and I’ll…

Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen I’ve averaged about 34mpg living in metro Boston over the course of 14000k miles. Tons of storage, a small tow capacity, good footprint, treks my two kids around, and the 1.8T is fun but won’t get you into trouble.

Bostonian here and I’m in the same boat. Live on the South Shore after getting priced out of Boston, and our neighborhood is going back to its roots and has heavy PUD development around the commuter rail station (Google: Weymouth Landing, if you’re into this stuff). School system isn’t bad, but with all of the new…

1) Wall Street knows that there’s a glut of cars on the market. GM creates ‘sales’ by selling to dealers, even though they force dealers to ‘buy’ their cars. When there are record high inventories on dealership lots, the bubble is about to burst.

I’d replace my Kia Rio hatch with one of these as a cheap around-town beater (Boston, so it really *does* take a beating to go around town) if I could get it for a reasonable price (see: current rebates on the Leaf). Until then, I’ll drive my golfcart into the ground and when these come down to reasonable prices I’ll…

As one of the generation that was thrust into Iraq to search for WMDs and then later to ‘liberate’ Iraq, I don’t buy it. He suddenly grew a conscience? He had no problem saying ‘not our problem, stay out’ when Obama was president and Assad was gassing his people. I’ve seen too many friends fall because of this good…

I have a 2016 Golf Sportwagen 1.8T that I got brand new for 19k. Not the first car’d I’d have chosen, but for that price, how can you go wrong? It’s no monster, but a nice looking wagon that goes vroom.

I mean, I hate to be that guy, but that is literally Fascist economics; that is, an economy where the gov’t uses its power to influence investment for favorable companies.

I remember in grad school we did a case study on GM’s management of their inventory. Glad to see nothing has changed- it worked out fabulously the last recession. I’m sure Drumpf will make sure they’re terrific, making the best sales. His best friends are sales.

Wasn’t a fan of TPP but this is part of why it was kind of a big deal (and my guess as to why Obama supported it so vehemently). Economic interdependence helps ease tensions between countries. While we trade a LOT with China and the southeast asia region already (duh), further complicating our trade policies…