Learned to drive on dad’s pride and joy 1969 Mercrdes 200D. It had 4 on the tree and the clutch was so heavy that it damn near gave hernia to weaker drivers.

Hear! Hear!!

<face palm>

Zing!

Subaru Forester: you put a new head gasket every 40k miles and figure that its too expensive now to replace.

I guess if one abandons their VW Golf on the side of the road and walk away with their license plates, it still shows up in DMV records as owned by the original owner :)

15 year old MDX may be with their original owners but they sure as shit aren’t with their original transmissions!

Snow tires would have helped - let the flaming wars begin!

Yes it is an i6. Pretty reliable and always starts every morning.

Sadly I don’t have a premium brand service center experience.

I ain’t no psychic, but I have a strong feeling that used VAG products are going to run away with the award of “most screwed off” customers here.

This is sadly very true. As reliable as my e39 wagon has been, I keep a Toyota or Honda as a back up car.

Preach, brotha!

Your “regular” car problem might very well be the VW problem.

What? You didn’t see a whole human being hanging out of a drifting car, within feets of another drifting car? Dense!

Thank you.

Agreed. General Altimax Arctics on a RWD manual = plenty of forward movement. DSC helps a lot too!

In the morning, i warm up my car for about 10 minutes, purely so that I have a warm car to sit in.

I think the near perfect 50/50 weight distribution of BMWs is a factor too.

These are nice cars, and I made a LOT of memories in mine in 5 years of ownership. That LT1 with open diff and ability to turn off traction control was a hoot as well, but my favorite bit was to drive long hours in absolutely hushed interior.