3rd possibility: Q-branch totally fixed that.

Definitely check your warranty to determine whether door-stays are covered in that very long warranty document. Wait...did you happen to open your doors near nuclear fuel or a revolution?

I tend to agree. I would be surprised to see a nuclear retaliation against NK from any nation. Just a massive bombing campaign to flatten their military infrastructure (artillery, personnel, manufacturing, and likely government) followed by a ground campaign from pretty much ever major world power (China, Russia, US,…

Well, given NK’s current estimated yield and the effect of trade winds, if they detonated a weapon on a boat in LA Harbor, it actually wouldn’t all that bad. 660 fatalities and 5790 fatalities. That doesn’t account for the people in the boats around the harbor, but it could be a hell 0f a lot worse.

Oh, agreed. I wasn’t suggesting that I liked complexity for the sake of itself. In fact, I prefer this simple arrangement:

A person really only needs to learn a shift pattern once (especially in an automatic, which doesn’t really involve much shifting). Most people don’t own a massive fleet of cars, so a single drive should do it. For those who can’t, may I suggest an alternate mode of transportation?

That’s a misleading statement. If a technology offers a competitive advantage, it will place the car into a different racing class. I’m sure that you already know this, though. Spec Miata guys would use it if it were available...but it’s not. There’s a reason, too. Not only because they’re not available to that class,…

That’s kind of a poor attitude. You must not do many track days, or have ever been involved in any kind of club racing (most race cars are shit cars).

Suuuuure...that’s why nobody’s rushing to buy a 911R. Look, I’m not trying to say that there’s not a market for the PDK - you’ve misreading me there. However, go to a PCA red/black group, and there are plenty of people who are happy with their Cayman R’s or 991S (among other cars that aren’t DSG GT3's).

Agreed.

Do you have any idea how important these people are? They have BMW’s are are therefore too important for considerations such as turn signal use and parking lot etiquette.

So much this. When the GT3 went all DSG, I read many comments from people who said that it made perfect sense, because they were track cars and should therefore be as fast as possible. Most of these comments were from people who had never actually spent any time on a race track. For many of us, it’s not about being…

That was his pic from the PelicanParts forum...not from the video. I was too lazy to snap the one from the video.

I saw at least one Jalop in that video. I’m specifically looking at the STR 911 guy who posts here and in the Pelican forums (Matt, I think). In the video, he was seeking shade under his frunk:

This is something that only Sterling Archer would think is awesome from a practical perspective.

Certainly, it’s for a pretty niche audience (I mean, it’s a $37k Golf). However, my understanding is that VW will build as many as they can sell.

The Mk VII Golf R is not limited edition (although the VI was).

Alright, I can accept that - and will gladly modify my original statement to say that in every circumstance, the average NOx emissions during a test loop were higher...and this says nothing of the min/max characteristics of the power plant.

I don’t think that it means what they think it means.