That’s the convention because on public “touristfahren” days, you don’t get to do complete laps. You slow down and pull off after the gantry, then if you want to go again you pass through the ticket barriers and rejoin before the bridge.

They’ve just split the models into odd-numbered utilitarian versions and even-numbered ‘prestige’ versions that they can charge more for (pretty sure they got that idea from Audi).

How is it flipped? You get the same 2-series as we do in Europe, and you had the same last-gen 1-series.

Yeah, definitely. There were some late-90s VAG wheels that had a similar look, maybe that was the inspiration:

Yes.

I saw a first-gen Audi TT cabrio on these wheels today. Not a great success.

Yeah, the article says ‘this GT3 Cup car with no brakes’ and I was wondering what failure could have lead to that. But looking at the video it’s pretty clear he did have some braking left.

Yeah, although the article says ‘a GT3 Cup car with no brakes’, you can tell from the video that he did still have some braking force left.

I thought fluid loss was the normal cause of brake failure (corroded brake lines etc.), so the two circuits have separate reservoirs. Watching that video it does seem like he’s still scrubbing some speed off before reaching the gravel, so maybe still had rears.

Sure but it would also afford some redundancy. Although rears only are unlikely to be very helpful in this situation.

True enough, he does seem to scrub some speed off looking at the video again. I took the ‘with no brakes’ in the story literally at first.

Aren’t the front and rear circuits usually separate for redundancy?

Such an unforgiving circuit.

Even you don’t know the difference between pedantry and nitpicking?

That’s factory.

They made it fast enough for GT3 by throwing most of it away.

VW and Audi styling is very conservative to appeal to the mass-market, older demographic - Seat is marketed as a bit more ‘youthful’ which tends to come through in their designs. Old people still buy them though.

I think 3 is pretty much ‘remap it’, and maybe the diff. There’s very little differentiation between the VAG hatchbacks other than sheetmetal and branding.

They’ve never really known what to do about their grills. Current look is quite good, if generic.

Oh that’s right, that one is the Audi badged Golf R. Get confused with so many similar VAG models.