Seriously, who ARE those people?

Very nice! My Mk5 was a 3 door, I definitely preferred the look and ease of entry/exit for me into the driver seat. My kid is limber and had no issue getting into the back. Sadly, the crew cab is the only choice in the US for a couple of years now, so that’s what I got this time. I like the utility of being able to…

This is my dad mobile. It’s the 4th GTI I’ve owned. Plenty of room for my wife and son, plenty of room to haul stuff, great in snow, extremely fun to drive, great on gas. Great tech, very safe, and has air vents in the back to keep my son comfortable. I’ve owned a lot of cars, nothing has come close to the pure joy of…

Pretty pathetic that a Jalopnik writer wouldn’t be familiar with Edd China. 

No. It doesn’t happen. What happens is if you are flying into a place that has bad weather, construction, or something else that is limiting the arrivals you get a take off time. Miss that time and you get another. Depending on how lucky you are it could be 10min in the future, it could be an hour or more.

Agreed. I think the Audi is the better car, but the Arteon is much more interesting to look at. Other than the E-tron and R8 Audis have gotten boring to look at with their same sausage in different lengths technique. 

He watches old races. It’s in the book that he has recordings and watches them with the dog. No one fucked up, they made a movie about a book.

Here’s a rule for life. If the book or movie has a dog on the cover, it dies. The only exception are slapstick kids movies like Air Bud. 

After you go around and teach everyone else who might hit them?

4 Runner. All day long, this is the right choice. It’ll handle all of your needs and dogs love the roll down rear window. We’ve got a 4Runner and an Odyssey, and when we open the door to the garage the dogs always ask to go in the Toyota despite them usually being in the Honda. Best dog vehicle there is, under your…

Wow. That’s crazy good life for brakes. My Mk5 GTI needed brakes at 60k.

The dual row IMS fail as well, just at a lower rate. IMS is really one of those things that if you’re in there doing the rear main seal (which is a really coming leak) or clutch, you may as well do the IMS since all the labor is already done to get to it. Even if YOU as the owner don’t believe it’s an issue, everyone…

Please. My 2018 2.5 Outback with CVT had no problem passing on 2 lane roads or merging onto highways, and that thing was slooooooow. Somewhere around 10sec on the 0-60 and 17.4 at 82mph in the quarter. What exactly are you driving and what speed is the guy you’re passing on this 2 lane road that you’re having…

Completely agree. I used to have a Miata, and in almost any situation it was more fun to drive than my current 996. I could run that car to redline in the first few gears and not be at dangerous/arrestable speeds and just generally drive it at 7/10 around town. Huge fun. The Porsche will get me arrested on any road in…

Lol. Drives my kid nuts when he get in my GTI and it’s not straight up. Doesn’t bother me at all, but it certainly does some people. 

No such thing as an el cheapo US only Jetta platform. Everything is on MQB now. Totally agree on getting the wagon, though. 

Other than brakes, tires and possibly bushings which will all wear at the same rate between identically driven cars, what exactly will wear out faster on this vs aGLI?

That would be handy. 

Now if only it could get those 370mi back on every street corner in 5 minutes, then we’d really have something. 

One of my desires is to see an adult come and run Tesla and Musk disappear from the picture. They could do some really great things.