Guess we’ll see how much of a “free speech absolutist” he really is in due time.

VW’s biggest success in the U.S. came when they made themselves a sort-of higher end but still affordable brand in the early to mid 2000s. They were still small potatoes compared to most competitors here, but they did infact do well.

Look at the date of the last spat between Winterkorn and Piech. Mere months before dieselgate broke out.

Lol, Mk4's are great little cars. The interior plastics are garbage, but I’ve certainly owned my share of Mk4 diesels with well over 300,000 miles. Still have one as it is.

Customer of mine had one with over 621k miles, which is apparently when the VDO clusters simply stop counting miles on these cars...

Pretty ironic reading this article. More than 20 years ago before F1 came to Indianapolis for the USGP, I remember reading an interview with Max Moseley, then head of the FIA, and it was in regards to how F1 failed in the U.S..

The F-Duct was wild once most teams adopted it.

New cars definitely don’t seem as ‘lively’ as the much lighter weight older cars, especially with full fuel loads.

I love his channel. They can be a little goofy/funny but also do some really sketchy recoveries that you can’t look away from. It’s awesome seeing the ingenuity in building their vehicles and in how they recover others’ vehicles from sticky situations. All with a good attitude and some fairly wholesome jokes.

Well, it is an interesting structure. To have a capped maximum amount of ‘coins’ that can ever be produced and it will take many years before the last one can be minted. It was created specifically to combat the shortcomings of fiat and its ever-inflationary design.

Pretty much the same here. Although even K Jet and the like can be a little bit of a pain.

This for me depends on the car. There are definitely some where the shifter is kind of clunky and the clutch pedal is heavy, that definitely would not be fun for a commuter.

I don’t necessarily agree with mandates, BUUUT, the anti-vax misinformation is absolutely insane. We should have a majority of people vaccinated by now, but there is a certain subsection of the population that refuses to vaccinate until they’re knocking on death’s door in the hospital with COVID-created pneumonia.

I was a teenager in the ‘90s, but what was great about car magazines, especially R&T and C/D, was they often had writers who had great recollection of some of the amazing things that transpired in 50s, 60s and even 70s racing. Said authors were also just fantastic storytellers. They also had the occasional article…

““When I asked them why it was not covered under warranty, they mentioned at [31,000 miles] the oil switch came on and I didn’t get an oil change done right away,” the owner told CTV.”

I would TDI swap it and drive it everywhere.

VW seemed to think the VR6 package was best intended for fitting a V6 into the smallish engine bay of their transverse mount front drivers. They never put VR6s into longi cars, but for some odd reason they decided it would work well as the base model engine for the Touareg/Cayenne/Q7 SUV cousins.. a platform that not…

Yep! Such an oddball little engine. Too bad we didn’t get any VR5s in the U.S.. I do know a couple guys who have imported the engines to swap into other VWs state-side, though. Really, really neat.

There are legitimately some jobs that are near-impossible without one of these.

There often ends up being aftermarket solutions for that... but then you’d have to pull the transmission and take the transaxle apart and install the diff yourself... or pay someone $bignum to do it.

Of course most automakers by now also have clever ABS programming that will try to act as an electronic differential…

You’re right on some level, most people won’t care/notice so long as it does its job and doesn’t require that much attention maintenance-wise.