Don’t you own a Nazi-designed Beetle?

Toyota: “Eh, they’ll just buy 4Runners or Tacomas instead.”

If you don’t think people are buying 4runners for serious off-roading, you aren’t paying attention. Just like how plenty of Jeep buyers have never seen anything rougher than a gravel driveway.

While that sounds like a good idea, only about a third of vehicle collisions that result in death are head-on collisions.

Toyota has just pushed most of those buyers into more expensive 4runners.

Boy, ford really is serious about competing with the wrangler. I didn’t think they would be able to match the experience completely like this, but they’ve nailed it.

Does guy #2 really think it’s that easy?

I would definitely follow that advice when it comes to Ford. I’m not sure what’s going on with them lately, but they have fumbled several major product launches in some way. I get that the pandemic disrupted a lot, but some of those fumbles were before COVID.

Given that the next article in my Jalopnik feed deals with Bronco roof issues, I think waiting a year or two for Ford’s seemingly inevitable ‘Poor Quality Is Job 1' issues to be resolved is the wise move.

Question 1: Tom, again you possess a patience I can barely pretend to emulate. I would have just responded with a series of links to a Jalopnik story from every day in the last two weeks about dealer markups and inventory shortages.

Wow, they’re really angling for the Wrangler crowd after all!

Diesels of that era were all about frugality, not fun. The Google tells me this was good for about 70 hp. Why would you do this to a Scirocco?

The last model year for TDIs was 2015. These low mileage cars are probably models that sold very poorly, like the Beetle Cabrio

Inevitably there’s someone who gets really defensive about some brands. Unreliable doesn’t mean 100% of cars will fail at a predetermined mileage. It means the odds of problems are a lot higher than other brands and the risk will only increase with age.

Wouldn’t know. I have a 2001 Toyota. ;)

I doubt it. Low mileage MK7s seem to have all been scooped up. Erin got one for a good deal but they were all bought up after the fix was released and now are selling for much more. I almost got one for $11k a few years ago with very few miles on it.

“or is it really just a tiny lifted hatch?”