I’m going to half-defend Piech here.

Hey... my 2001 Golf has 300k miles and still operates fantastic, thankyouverymuch.

Nope. Last model year for the 4 cylinder diesels was 2015. There are a small handful of 2016 MY V6 TDIs in Touaregs and Audi models around as well, but that’s a whole other line of bigger vehicles.

Not gonna lie, WHEN the convertible top on a VW Eos is working correctly (they can be fickle things) they’re pretty neat-o. AND, it’s also a giant glass sunroof that can open separately from putting the entire top down.

I’m sure the full story will come out soon. Something about a tow company illegally hauling cars with no license or insurance and a lawsuit is now involved.

To be factually accurate....

“And Dieselgate confirmed that indeed you were - there’s no free lunch, and the tens of thousands of years of human life (not making that up) lost to airway inflammation from the particulate emissions resulting from gamed emissions controls are a horrible price to pay.”

Had to go find the oppo archives... but here’s the first post about fixing mine up: http://jimisaherb.com/uploader/new/2019/3/1833067069.html

The V10 is a much older engine. It came out in 2003, it was in a concept car a couple years before that. Pumpe Duse fuel system, which was VW’s latest and greatest in 1999 in Europe.

Yep, this is exactly the job I had to do with my V10 Touareg when I got it a couple years ago.

Awesome! Always fun to see someone taking a vehicle not many would expect to see on trails and surprise people.

Now THAT’s a proper half-thought out adventure.

All around solid points. Actually quite surprising to hear that the UK still had leaded gas by Y2k and went through the same FUD campaign the U.S. did in the 1970s.

Run what the manufacturer recommends.

OK, so, let me help you clarify why this car is special.

That is pretty amazing. I mean, they’ve landed them before, they just blew up after the landing.

Ferndale, you say. Looks close to Bellingham. The previous owners of my Touareg, the parents of one of them lives there... and it sounds like they’re headed that way in a couple weeks as well... probably driving their Model 3 cross country... again.

Probably not the nicest time for me to bring up one of my defenses of VW’s cheating diesels: they won’t CO poison you... and that if given the choice of being trapped in a close garage with a vehicle’s engine running, gas vs. diesel, I would pick diesel every time.

The South loves their revisionist history books for sure...

Nah, the EPA making up nitpicky overly strict rules? That NEVER happens.

Even with some mild weight reduction, I still have my doubts with the heavy cast iron VR6 lump that it weighs less than 2000 lbs.