This is like bashing the current A4 Allroad because it’s smaller than the old A6 Allroad. Similar names aside, they're different classes of cars. 

But the Passat was a midsize, and the Golf is a compact, even if it’s larger than the standard Golf. 

This is so true and so sad.  

Hatchpocalypse, demon spawn of Sedanpocalypse.

Oh, they’ll be bringing the regular Golf over. It’ll just be taller, with plastic wheel arches, a pretense of off-road capability, and it won’t be called the Golf.

It’s like they looked at the face of the new Camry:

So we’ve reached peak stupid.

$600-800/month is more than our house payment on a 15 yr mortgage.

When you remove entire segments of vehicles from an automakers lineup, those sales go with it. Whether or not those sales were profitable they still go away. Falling sales by losing models is fine as long as the rest of the lineup is profitable and the company as a whole is more profitable for it 

“Charlie Chesbrough, senior economist for Cox Automotive, told AutoNews that he has a working hypothesis. Mainly, it costs more to buy a car these days, and it’s tough to borrow the money to do it. It’s pretty tough to sell to a market that doesn’t have the means to buy.”

I was only able to test a manual on a car max used car lot but it was the FWD, but it was enough to know I could daily it. I bought a 2018 4x4 manual late last year, it got me to work in the snow without issue, decent on gas, has room for my dogs. I am not asking it to climb mountains just don’t fear unplowed roads…

There is something wrong with the 2.4L design, and it isn’t just the lack of a turbo.

I’m revving up the flame thrower, a flaming torch is just not enough to be sure.

It doesn’t help that I couldn’t test drive one when I was actually considering it.

What a weird take. “I bought the wrong car, and every day I cheer when other people can no longer buy anything like it!” Do we not deserve the cars we want because you’re dumb and bought a car you don’t like?

Dealer/OEM: 1. only offer manuals with the least desirable trims and options. 2. Nobody buys the manuals. 3. Drop the manual option due to low take rate.

Even with a 40 second timer ticking the 737MAX pilots have proven they can’t figure out the puzzle.

Yeah, handing control back to the driver who hasn’t been paying attention is not a great solution to the autopilot encountering a unsolvable, split-second, potentially life or death decision.