I like the idea, I don’t like the execution.

Seven, if you get the bench middle seat.

How has he aged so rapidly in the past few years?

And yet, Volkswagen has done nothing in an attempt to retain these diesel owners...

As a motorcyclist, I love these features. As a car driver, I just want them to offer a cheaper model without all this shit, or at least have it be fully defeatable (well, all the chimes and beeping and shit, I don’t mind if it saves me from rear ending someone).

You must not understand how it works. Since I drive double the 12,500 miles, VW will deduct a certain value from my buyback, so I get less money. The argument is that the 12,500 is an unfair number to use, since TDI drivers drive more than the 12,500 on average, therefore it isn’t a fair number to use.

Not entirely. If the vehicle cannot run under it’s own power, you’ve got to deal with the insurance company and get it fixed to a point where it can drive under it’s own power. Then you’ve got to be able to drive it into your buyback site (dealer). Then you are eligible for the full buyback.

But there is mileage depreciation (I fully admit, that is much better than full depreciation, but it isn’t depreciation free that people keep saying). And if it get’s totaled, you are SOL. No buyback money for you. Just a shitty offering from the insurance company for way, way, way less than the buyback.

My state will not treat it as a trade in.

What about the owners with 1 year old cars? I’m out the $2,000 I paid in taxes on it. Primarily because I cannot really trade this vehicle in, so I cannot credit the taxes paid on it, towards the vehicle that will replace it. So I’m stuck paying for taxes all over again on the replacement vehicle. I have a high…

As a TDI owner, my main complaints were with the use of CTI Value instead of the Private Party Value. If they are using the Clean Trade In Value, I should get the tax benefits of actually trading the vehicle in. But it isn’t being processed this way, so not only did I pay taxes on my 1.5 year old vehicle, but I’m…

Using the vents as the main criteria for engine placement, and you haven’t mentioned the engine under the front bonnet?

$28,750 was what I paid for it new. It was 1.5 years old with 34,000 miles on it. No chance in hell they could have sold it for $28,000.

My last vehicle I traded in, I got a better value by trading it in over selling it. The best I could have sold it for was $23,500. That would have required waiting to find the right buyer and having to deal with all that. Realistically I expected to sell it for ~$22,000 so I wouldn’t of had to sit on it for very…

Almost always? Not really. Especially if your trade in is worth a hefty sum and you live in an area with a high sales tax rate on new vehicles.

Consumer Reports ratings are screwy. If you look at the reliability ratings for the best/worst reliable for each class, the Tacoma is listed as the most reliable truck. But if you venture into truck ratings, the Tacoma is listed as having the worst predicted reliability out of the mid-sized trucks.

“Pony car’s can’t turn!”

Contracting out manufacturing is irrelevant. I mean, we can go another step further back and say that Ford/GM/InsertCarBrandHere doesn’t process their own iron ore to create rolled steel. Ford doesn’t build their own headlight assemblies, they are bought from a parts supplier. VW doesn’t build their own ECU’s, they…

My main thought after watching was “What part of this clip really showcases the car?”

European towing standards are based on the driver having both common sense and a functioning brain. American towing standards are based on “Bubba, hold my beer”.