To add to my above reply, watch this video first describing the engineering behind why this engine is so efficient:

Being the diesel tech nerd I am, when I watched a video that had a GM engineer showing on a cutaway of the new 3L Duramax all the little tricks for thermal management the engine has along with the belt driven, computer controlled variable displacement vane style oil pump, I chuckled a little... because I’ve seen all…

That’s what’s great about diesels. The EPA certification test doesn’t spend a ton of time on steady state highway cruising, which is where diesels excel. It seems on average that gas engines do worse in the real world than what the EPA numbers suggest, but diesels often are closely matched to the EPA rated fuel…

Rock on. Get out there and string together whatever you can to do what you love.

Actually has a lot of surprisingly compelling points to it.

Yeah, I’m going to have to agree with you. Not to mention that even when Seb was dominate, who was the driver, in an inferior car no less, who consistently took it to Seb in qualifying?

This is where I miss some old and now passed away Road & Track contributors.

If their entire hope was to capture VW cast offs, they were doing it wrong... And the lack of marketing certainly didn’t help. How do they expect to sell a product when no one knows it exists and half their dealers also don’t even realize it’s an option?

Given how Rich Energy markets their drink apparently towards those of affluence, I have to wonder how many of us normal plebs will actually bother buying the shit even if it were readily available? Or will we just all go “Nah, fuck that rich asshole and the assholes he’s trying to market to, I’m buying something…

I’m not sure if Jalopnik employs high school kids, or if kids in their 20s just look that young these days or if I’m just a bald, angry old fuck and everyone that looks younger than me appears to be of high school age. I don’t know anymore.

Sweet, now the government can sell those drugs themselves and keep the profit from someone else’s work! They’re great at that sort of thing.

FWIW, the follow up to TFL’s initial video of the Touareg is up... I haven’t watched the whole thing yet, waiting for a break at work. But judging by the comments, it does not disappoint.

My family had a 96 4Runner... We couldn’t keep rear axle seals from letting gear oil puke all over the rear drums repeatedly. Even made my own special tool to press the bearing and outer seal out to do that one as well. After doing that, it lasted the longest it ever had in our possession... which was about a year and…

What? The VW DSGs only have a slight hesitation when taking off, but once up and rolling, they’re butter smooth and lightning fast. I owned a DSG equipped Jetta that had 300,000 miles on it and it still drove great. I kind of want to get another one.

Maybe your BF’s has an issue... or maybe your BF’s driving style is…

Ineed. My 05 Passat wagon has the glove box cooler vent as well. The mini sunshade above the rearview mirror has been on many cars. I’ve owned a 96 Passat that had it, even, and every single mk4 Golf and Jetta has it.

Yeah, so, the silver V10 you saw in Bay area traffic? Probably me... actually, I have a customer who lives in Marin with one of the same color, only obvious external difference would be that his is all soot covered on the back and has the wagon style roof bars where mine has the early Touareg sliding cross bars, both…

I’d rock having the spare tire carrier and cover. Would love to retrofit one to mine. Looks super slick.

Keep thinking I will get to it, too! I’ve got a few photos, but not a ton. I’ll try working on that this week since it’s piqued so much interest yet again.

Did you try driving your Civic across the fault escarpment itself right here like I did? I’m not quite sure I was allowed to do it, but I did it anyway... and there was a gate on the South Side that made me have to drive back up that mess.

Why does it feel like we’re playing Cards Against Humanity now?? :P