Good.

Yeah, that’s an American market car only as far as I know. And assembled in Tennessee.

I left the dealer a couple years before they started selling them, so no, I haven’t driven them. Though they are still just a variant of the MQB platform that underpins the Mk7s as well, so I’m sure chassis wise, they drive well…

You worded it far more kindly than I would have.

I see you too prefer VWs that seem a little janky or maybe overly complex (like my Touareg).

I wouldn’t say they’re circling the drain considering they are trading off with Toyota for #1 mass producer in the world.

I was about ready to go all “Fiesta ST” until he said he didn’t want a small car.

Small displacement engine, less fluid to warm up, less engine to warm up, a blast to drive, easy to park, gets great mileage.

I crack piped it, mostly on account of being a car that resides in the Northeast.

Overall, point taken. And I won’t comment on the upcoming vote so much as I’m not fully aware of the technologies being discussed and debated for standardization here.

Been around long enough to have watched a number of drivers die at this point, through what is a period of the sport in which deaths are the lowest rate ever thanks to safety advancements, it still isn’t much easier than the first time I experienced a favorite driver passing away.

Pretty wild to see any corporate entity trying to make an honest assessment of its own history, even if many decades after the fact.

They’re not 100%, but as you can see with the onboard on Russell’s car, they did work on his car.

Solid race. Had some typical Indy 500 drama, but just doesn’t feel the same without the massive wall of people packed into the stands making noise. It really doesn’t.

Man, I really like most any VW on the PQ34 platform. New Beetle, Golf, Jetta, Jetta wagon.

I do have to wonder if the replacement truck will actually outlast the original. Especially considering the difference in transmission.

I, as a liberal, am about ready to call the author a safe-space, trigger-word scared weenie.

Ackermann is an angle more related to how the whole car is turning, it’s not the point of what I’m discussing here.

I disagree. The virtual steering axis is absolutely a manipulation of SAI and scrub radius to make a virtual pivot point dead center of the tire and almost completely vertical SAI.

The brakes they use would be fine for a road car. They are not fine for repeated high speed braking like you’d do on road courses.

I should rephrase that the brakes aren’t bad, they’re just not well matched to what the car is.

Pfft, that’s not too powerful. Heavy, yes... and that’s really the main thing. They can get some speed built up, sure, but they have pretty garbage brakes for the amount of weight they have... so I could certainly see where braking into turn 1 off the oval after working up a pretty high head of steam, yeah, they’d…