Imma gonna give you your reply back in a minute, right after I let you know that you need to go punish yourself in the way you deem fit for the horrendous comment above:

Ha!

You have absolutely NO BUSINESS reviewing any car, let alone a high powered sports sedan!

Here’s the thing - NOBODY needs a (insert virtually every segment and sub-segment of vehicle), sports car, pickup, station wagon, hatchback, etc, etc, etc.

A former German manager told me how he was able to tow campers over the Alps with his Vanagon - torque multiplation is a wonderful thing!

Guess again, Bunky!

Nice price all the way!

“ ... the shortsighted consumer base ... “ aren’t as short sighted as you believe.

Yes, they do suck. Compressors push more in, but the downward movement of he piston creates a low pressure are that ‘does’ suck in air.

Most cars have LIN bus for body modules, the gateway module is typically the instrument cluster, as it doesn’t do anything that requires bandwidth, but is already connected to the various bus to get all its data - it is the gateway between the powertrain bus and powertrain expansion bus typically too, so can’t be…

You do know that the ‘short-sighted consumers’ you refer to are buying vehicles that are FAR more fuel efficient than they were even ten years ago, let alone twenty plus.

No, using more fuel results in more emissions, period.

An engine is essentially a pump - it sucks air in when the valves open, fuel is injected, compressed, explodes and the piston pushes the air out again.

Well, I could start a list ;-)

It was self induced - the cars saw the logo on their grill and decided that they MUST uphold the VW standards in any way possible!

Yes, and they have continued to increase sales - why are you so sad that you need to cling to a wrong-headed idea?

You’re obviously lying, why, I don’t know - but it just makes you look foolish, nothing else. You see, this is the interwebs, and people who have an axe to grind for some ludicrous reason (that would be you, clearly) can be easily disproved. Yeah, that’s clearly a cheap interior with a mis-mash of material - uh, sure.

So, you can’t tell the difference between a leather steering wheel cover and a vinyl one?

Multi-brand OEM’s pretty much share platforms across their brands.

Not globally it wasn’t - he just paid far too much for it