The Singers are amazing, but I appreciate something like this more.

If I had CEO duties and pressure of a company the size of Ford, $14mil would not be enough.

Wouldn’t you like to know.

Large commercial trucks. Midsize segment is brutal.

As long as it doesn’t back the car in, I’m all for this. Backing cars into parking spots is so pretentious.

Interesting.

Ben and Jerry’s capped CEO pay at like 10x average salary. They ran away from that quite rapidly.

Add to that, considering how the stock has tanked, his real earnings will be more like $2mil. I don’t know what percentage is stock. It’s a brutal business.

My guess is more reach in markets where VW is stronger like South America or China. It’s very likely that VW branded Ford trucks come out of a Ford factory, so it might be a way to extend business without fronting the marketing cost.

I think VW needs Ford more than the other way around. Ford has a healthy commercial vehicle presence in Europe.

Turning radius suffers and I get added weight. The F31 was already rear biased in weight distribution. It would have been amazing to have even more rear bias.

Oh. And did you know that snow tires and AWD aren’t compatible?

You Canadians seem to keep unreliable cars running much longer than the Americans ever bothered to do. I remember going to Vancouver in the mid 00s and was surprised at the number of 90s Ford Escorts and such running strong.

But RWD > AWD. Always...

Weather it’s worth it or not (see what I did there), I’m frustrated that it’s ruining my choices for RWD.

Point taken and thanks for the feedback.

I thought Civic boy bought a slightly used Evo or WRX as soon as he got a real job.

Funny, because when the car first came out, the people who drove bought these were the faux elitists who used words like “German engineering” and “driver’s car” to remind you how much better they were than you.

Strange how VW (specifically) built this image in America. In Europe, they’re seen as boring.

The things you learn on this forum! It’s a Mk IV Golf and it’s 2019.