Put a Youtube link right under the unnecessary-duplication crapware. I can’t even see it because I haven’t installed the security Swiss Cheese that is Flash, so it’d make it a lot easier to hop over to a properly-set-up HTML5 video.

I cannot figure out why Dawn of the Planet of the Apes clearly shows a battleship (looks like an Iowa-class, but I couldn’t make out enough details) at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. I’ve been to San Francisco before and don’t recall seeing one and some Web searches turned up no explanation or any news of one…

A little overbearing (... assault, technically) especially since the ones I’ve seen are almost all sitting unattended where nobody cares, and sometimes even outdoors... but in general, it’s not a good idea to touch items in museums because the skin oils on visitors’ fingers can and will cause damage, even to objects…

Some people are hard of hearing, deaf, or otherwise outright prefer texting. (I’m all three).

They’re also not allowed to install defeat devices, which is what they’re really in trouble for.

Apollo 15-17 were the “J” extended-stay missions that carried a lunar rover, so this was mostly intended to teach the astronauts how to drive it (pictured up top is a training version of the LRV).

VW just keeps right on digging that hole, didn’t they?

I know this is an old story, but I wanted to see the video since I’m looking into why Elite: Dangerous offers a pink scheme in one of its military paint packs. Can you fix the link?

Occasionally pour a mix of vinegar and water down the drains. Our family’s 1988 Honda Accord LX-i experienced clogged drains ten years later and that’s what the shop tech told me to do to clear out the drains in the future.

Good question, since I see them around surprisingly often. It actually is a Passat, and the European one at that; over there, it’s the “Passat CC”. (I even have a grainy nighttime photo of said badging, taken while a family trip to Greece.)

Me too. I’d love to see something similar to the Golf 7’s front end.

Yes, but it won’t go on sale til the EPA grants a certificate of conformity.

At least it doesn’t have the Lexus predator mouth. I actually can’t stand most of the designs out there these days. If I were purchasing a new vehicle and had up to $50k to spend, I’d go for an Acura RDX, a BMW X1 or 3-series wagon, or an Audi A3. Most everything else is creased, wrinkled, etc. to death to me.

You can turn the radio’s clock off, thankfully. It is indeed rather silly, especially since the center screen of the gauge cluster also has a clock.

It is also not the same car. Same name, different car.

And how dare they actually care about public health and the environment.

That’s what I was thinking — not much of a change.

Big news would have been the return of the wagon variant, pun intended.

I now demand a picture of a cat on a dyno.

Oh, agreed. We just traded in a 2012 Jetta TDI on a Golf Sportwagen TSI. The news hit the day before we did the trade, but the dealer had already written everything up and given us our trade-in value.