If you can afford to fix a modern VW, you’re not cheap. 

This. Or the little light they put on their dash. 

I mean, the rear main seal on the EA888 TSI typically blows out around the time the warranty was about up. This will fix that issue of it happening in the warranty period.

Let alone a surging river. A lot of people underestimate the power of a river and how turbulent the water can be. 

My apologies, I worded that funny. Gas engines are good at meeting NOx standards, struggle at making particulate matter standards. Especially at cold weather. It’s the nature of combustion, naturally, an engine running hot enough to produce a crap ton of NOx will produce little PM, same goes for the other way around.

Euro 6c emissions, carbon tax and high fuel prices. Europe has tight particulate matter emission targets, the US has tight NOx emission targets. Low NOx is something a gas engine is better for, low PM targets is easier to achieve with a diesel.

Neutral: AOA Disagree

That’s basically like having free money at that point. At zero percent, you’d be crazy not to take it. 

They did cheat the numbers. They frequently talked about how the car gets better numbers than the EPA cycle. Sales people and owners talked about the cars getting 50 mpg(the newer ones, not the older generation).

The Colorado and Jeep Liberty diesel both delivered the same as EPA, if not under a little. It depends on the vehicle. The fixed VW engines are back at their EPA rating.

High pressure common rail, dynamic timing and VGT turbo will make this thing significantly more responsive than the diesels of yesteryear.

It is quite impressive. The thing to remember with the 6BT is that it’s designed to be able to run at the peak power output for 24/7 and be the utmost reliable in doing so. It’s the most legendary engine for not the power(heavy industry considered these engines to be underpowered boat anchors), but for being the most…

And if you’re one of the maybe 2 percent of people who experience a CP4 failure on some of these newer diesels, you’re out 3-8 grand. An engine replacement on a Honda Fit is probably cheaper.

The problem is that not enough people bought into it. The Equinox got 40 mpg. It’s dead now.

46 mpg with the Cruze. 

46 mpg highway for the Cruze diesel(Bosch CP4 equipped with around 10 injection events at 20,000-30,000 psi),33 highway for the Silverado. A 600 mile trip with local fuel prices for my area(2.70) results in 50 dollars in the Silverado and 35 dollars for the Cruze.

As someone who's going to tackle a DSG, I agree. 

But the front leg room is to die for, it's fine for my 6'8" frame. The kiddos can cry in back all they want, but they'll have it better than I did when riding on cross country trips in the extended cab of a 2nd gen Ram. Back then I walked to school uphill both ways. 

It’s too bad the wagon was killed because so many people are out of touch. I may need to buy a Sportwagen TDI soon so it can make my dreams come true, especially since I might become a family man someday.  

There was backlash and resistance to new production goals, but management convinced them to charge forward with the new orders.