They mostly have manual transmissions and you can’t text while you drive one, slap a slushbox in and some google glass visor and I’m sure Americans would be all about it.

I immediately thought of the Hard Drivin’ arcade game when I saw this story.

The BMW also costs like $10,000 more, so yeah, it should. The TDI competes with econoboxes like the Corolla, Civic, Cruze, Mazda 3, Focus, etc.

Some of the early slushboxes that were paired with a TDI were junk, but the DSG’s and their manual transmissions were never really a problem.

Peak HP and Tq numbers don’t tell the whole story, which power curve would be more useful to you in day-to-day driving? There’s no wrong answer really, but I’d prefer not to have to downshift so much to pass people like they’re standing still.

The urea injection takes care of the NOx for the most part on those guys, the other diesels were found to be merely EPA compliant.

Look up the carbon footprint of a pet cat or dog, a 1st-world baby or even a 3rd-world baby and all this BS seems pretty damn moot once you’re operating outside of a densely populated urban area.

Yes, there are several other US states that adhere to CARB (California Air...) standards verbatim, as well as states and counties within states that have their own emissions testing standards. I agree that you shouldn’t drive in places like Paris, LA or Chicago if you don’t live there, they have great public transit…

Damn, that’s insane. I was looking at kits on idparts.com, which is mostly diesel stuff.

Not everyone on the planet chooses to live in densely populated urban environment, unfortunately it seems we all get to suffer the consequences of regulations imposed by those cities no matter how we live, joy.

Except without some groundbreaking non-existent battery tech, the current electrics and hybrids can’t even come close to the performance and range of an equivalent turbodiesel car.

You mean $30 USD, right? $300 isn’t even the most expensive complete set of “40k DSG complete service kit” I could find.

Sadly, I’m afraid most consumers don’t think the same way we do. “Smart” TV is the next new OOH SHINY gotta have in almost every conversation I’ve had about a new TV.

I don’t really consider “Smart TV” a selling point, the manufacturers will inevitably stop providing firmware updates in the near future rendering the smart functionality useless in several years, then you’ll end up with external boxes anyways and botnets full of hacked “smart” appliances with no security updates all…

Spoiler alert: it's mean!

This doesn’t sound that horrible: https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xft1/v/…

Yeah, I couldn’t find any hits for Network Administrator or System Administrator. Those are pretty general positions in IT.

I miss the visibility of the late 80’s and early 90’s, look at all that window!

You’d be surprised what they come up with. They also show how all the PPM on various things compare to other customers with the same engine. If they see something of concern they’ll call it out, when I bought my Jetta TDI used with 130,000 on the clock and no warranty, the first thing I did was an oil change and sent…

I know of multiple people, from different states, who all either directly did, or knew someone who did, jerk off in Papa John’s pizza sauce.