Nooo no no no no... I agree with you TOTALLY... EXCEPT that this is a decade plus old Passat. Trust me, as VW owner from this generation, the family may not be just in their opinion, and fixing it is always an option, but it’s a losing battle. Run... let the Passat return to the earth. These VW’s in this era are in a…

I live in New England, so naturally, I want something with 4WD or AWD because we get crappy weather at least five times a year.

Doesn’t want: Something that embarrasses my family.

You could just save your money and fix the VW 135k is not a super huge amount of miles. Dump some money into fixing its problems, then in a few years give it to the kid, it won’t be so yuck when it’s either this or get a job you freeloading brat and buy your own car. Then go buy yourself a midlife crisis Corvette.

Sounds like it’s time to replace the family, not the car.

Well, I got my Accord 2.0T Sport for 28K (not including loan interest, mandatory protection package, and all that stuff)

It has 50 fewer horsepower and yet somehow is “faster” (okay, 5.5 seconds on the 0-60 compared to the Camry’s 5.8).

I just took a 1999 Camry LE 4 cylinder with 211,000 miles (original automatic transmission drivetrain) on a 6700+ mile road trip from Pittsburgh to Vegas to Montana and then back to Pittsburgh. We stopped at 7 national parks and Monument Valley on the way. It never left us stranded and the only casualty was a…

REAL PEOPLE NOT ACTORS TOTALLY CARE ABOUT JD POWER AWARDS

The Accord is better looking, and it certainly is better driving.

I will always post this video when given the chance.

I wish I had a time machine. I’d go back in time to 1995 and tell people that in the future Kia/Hyundai top Porsche for quality and Donald Trump is president.

Also my initials are JD so if anyone wants some awards hit me up. 

I got a 2018 JD Power Initial Quality Award this morning for making my bed and dressing myself. 

PREACH!

The problem is, GM keeps telling consumers what they want instead of listening to what consumers want. New flash GM, we didn’t want this thing, we wanted this one:

I was looking at the Outback but I saw this was coming out and I wanted to see it as well as the Regal Sportback. When I called the local dealer to ask about test driving both I was told that the TourX was out as a loaner car.

Sad

Why are we even having this conversation?

Something French.

When I totaled the Ion sometime in the earlier part of this decade, I got a 2008 Honda Fit