Spoken like someone who doesn’t have to work on modern shitboxes.

This is why I still have 20 year old diesel VWs.

The contrarian/devil’s advocate in me wants to point out that EV sales in general have been down pretty big the last year, and Tesla saw the trend, cut prices drastically to try to keep volume up, which, maybe sort-of (barely) helped... at first.

Being the resident VW nerd, seems VW killed their 5 speeds after model year 2018 wrapped up. All the manuals going forward, at least in our market, are 6 speed.

Apparently the clipboard photo didn’t post. Trying this again.

I have a soft spot for these cars. I got into TDIs in a Mk3 Jetta way back in 2004, a car my old man owned from new in 1998. Same basic engine this Passat has with very minor differences.

Oh, these were WAY dirtier than the “cheating” diesels.

Lowest hanging fruit: bro-dozers.

I’m sold. This is the EV for me.

Yep, the law of unintended consequences is alive and well.

“What it takes to address these issues I leave up to NASCAR — but now is the time for the series to address issues of safety, before it’s too late.”

“What it takes to address these issues I leave up to NASCAR — but now is the time for the series to address issues of safety, before it’s too late.”

Yep, can 1000% pump your own diesel in Oregon.

I grew up in Michigan, lived in California for over a decade, and in Oregon for the last two with semi-annual visits for a few years prior.

I’m almost at the point of buying an EV, because it could suit about 95% of my driving needs at the moment. New job as of 2021 and I live only a mile away. Most mornings I walk to work, but I like to leave a car at work so I can drive home and back for lunch. Convenient.

Probably doesn’t take as long. They likely haven’t designed the engine quite so “tight” on an engine that needs to last a 24 hour race.

Tesla/Musk lovers will continue to brush it off as necessary to further advance full self driving, and this is just another in a long line of people trying to use it to tear down what they think is an important advancement of technology.

Really isn’t one. Just an observation. Makes the word recall seem less severe than it used to be.

Being that so many recalls like this are now just software that can be updated OTA (over the air), it kind of takes the teeth out of the recall, the stock might tank on the news for a few days etc. Where previously it was a bit of an ordeal, it all had to be done at a dealer with their special computer plugged in to…

One thing about EVs that scares me is how expensive they might be to own for those who tend to keep cars to absurdly high miles/tend to only buy very cheap used, high mile cars.