Price alone for sure will limit the number of takers on this one. But, as you found out, diesels often exceed their EPA rating in real world use where gas engines often times fall well short.

By modern standards, absolutely. Especially considering AWD.

The standards of what constituted “quick” were very different in the early 90s.

Yeah, the A8Ls of the last decade plus have been outclassing everyone for features and interior niceness... plus they’re AWD.

In the 90s, absolutely. But have you sat in a much more modern S class and compared it to a recent A8L?

That is as well-equipped as a Mk4 VW gets. Climatronic, steering wheel controls and power with memory seats.

And it looks like one of my replies in another thread you did see. It was one of my more succinct replies. heh

Kinja’d. The link is going to the wrong reply... going to try and start it with the original response, see if that works.

I wrote several replies, a couple in replies to other comments.

But the main string is here: https://jalopnik.com/1837219402

Shit, a couple of my rebuttals to that very article were long enough to be an article in their own right.

I like how you tried to uphold some sort of journalistic standard of fact-checking before submitting stories... and then include Jamie “Adblue is blue” Kitman’s hack job of a story full of factual inaccuracies and terrible assumptions with zero technical understanding of the scientific realities behind diesel…

Torch, did someone piss in your cherios the morning you wrote this?

You might be right. At the same time, the initial hydrogen fuel cell cars were also insanely expensive... as in $1 million price tag expensive. Sure, they’ve gotten closer to affordable now, but it’s taken them this long to come anywhere close to a competitive price.

hahahaha

Wait, Jalop readers actually buy low mile cars??

Voted Nice Price. But, with one caveat. I don’t know how well the conversion was done. For the most part, it’s bolt-on parts and a different ECU.

Kind of wonder if Porsche’s regenerative braking is simply much less effective than Tesla’s. Tesla also having the ability to drive the car using the throttle pedal only with how severe they can make the engine braking (it’s a user-adjustable feature, how much engine braking with how little throttle, or if you don’t…

Tempting to say nice price because it is a genuinely nice vehicle, gets great mileage for a vehicle its size and has excellent torque to get its mass moving.

PG recommended one of my rambling posts? News to me!

After consulting The Google, turns out that 3 rotor LMP2 was actually a Courage chassis and it was run by a privateer team called B-K Racing.

Eh, cool that it’s a manual. But they made a lot of 1.8Ts, and the early ones aren’t all that great. Might as well throw in all the plastic crankcase vent and vacuum related stuff while doing the valve cover... and chain tensioner gasket. That brittle plastic likes to break if you look at it wrong at its age.