EXACTLY!

Glad I’m not alone on this. Hatchbacks are squared off, Honda makes this and its bloated big brother the Crosstour with the fastback look. Why not make it like previous Honda hatches and the Golf/Mazda 3 and give some more room back there? Sure you can fit more in this than a sedan or coupe, but why compromise the…

It is terrible. A Mercedes is classy and elegant. That dumb light up star is anything but classy and elegant. It reminds me of the guys who drive Hondas (or any other marque) and have a big Honda sticker across their windshield. Yeah, we know what you drive, it already has the logo in 6 places on the outside and the…

VWs aren’t overpriced. They are downright cheap now and for some like the Jetta have been for a while. I don’t debate the rest of your points, but this isn’t the 90s and early 2000s when it comes to VW pricing.

Ugh. Desperately wanted a Corrado when they were new, my high school self could not make it happen. Fast forward 15 years or so and I decide it’s time to scratch that itch. EVERY one I looked at locally had been on fire at some point. There were 4 or 5 of them, I didn’t call on the ones that said they had been on fire…

If it makes you feel any better, this is mine at 621 miles.

Preach the gospel, Brother RazorWire.

Wow. Making a Nitro worth less. Impressive skills, Greenville Customs.

Why do the brake lights have to be on in reverse? A manual transmission may have the clutch in or a guy with an auto may have the parking brake on. It’s a poor design.

Then fix them instead of letting your daughter drive around with a potentially unsafe vehicle. Don’t know how old her car is, but maybe the lenses are pitted, the bulbs need replacement, or they just aren’t aimed right, or all 3.

If you can’t put together $18k without financing, you have no business owning a 911TT, 600k miles or not.

My experience over 3 GTIs, 2 TDIs, my mother’s Eos and my sister’s Jetta is that they’ve been reliable cars for the most part. My first VW was a very early 2006 TDI with the DSG that was part of a group that shipped with defective flywheels. It shat the bed and was replaced, otherwise very reliable. Other than that…

You can’t exactly compare the cost of maintenance between a 17yo car and a new one. Your Passat costs are more related to the previous owners than anything.

Not built in Mexico. The R is built in Wolfsburg Germany. That said, the GTI is hecho en México. I’ve had 2 German built GTIs and now a Mexican one, there is no quality difference.

Mazda 3s rust really bad. I loved my 2006 except that by 2009 my 45k (garaged) 3 was rusted horribly underneath and one of the wheel arches had started. Great car, crap rustproofing. Hopefully it has improved.

Pilot treatment varies a lot at different carriers. There are certainly ones (in the US mostly 3-4 regional carriers) where pilots are treated badly, but on the whole recent trends have been pilots getting better pay and benefits. Perspectives also change based on seniority and living situation, but on the whole it’s…

Not true. She could have called in sick, she was actually legally obligated to do so. She is a member of a union, if there was any pushback form the company, the union would have gotten involved and nothing would have happened to her. The only exception is if she is someone who continually calls in and has a pattern…

Wisdom dispensed.

We should stop wasting all these perfectly good bottles that are being recycled. They should all be shipped to the coasts and used to hold the ocean. After we find the plane and Atlantis, just pour it back in.