Fun to drive yes, reliable they are not.

Only a few special tools, once you have your basic metric toolbox setup for most other cars, just order a set of triple square sockets and you can tackle just about anything. Our ‘08 Passat has been pretty reliable overall, with one major service around 90K miles that was covered by a VW extended repair program. It’s…

Are you not better off with AWD?

Along the way, he threatened to hit car companies with huge tariffs for producing cars in Mexico and importing them to the U.S. for sale.

That “study” is nothing but a bunch of assumptions and statistics stuffed into a Crock Pot and cooked for 8 hours.

Must be because VW’s not an American company.

Nothing that a slight styling change to the grille wouldn’t fix.

My 2013 Passat TDI SEL was in a flood this spring and totaled, along with a 2008 Honda Odyssey. I got the insurance check, and the VW check, and I bought a 2014 Passat TSI SEL and a 2013 CC Luxury.

They took a major hit with brand loyalty with the dieselgate fiasco, even non-diesel owners I spoke with are kinda soured on the brand.

Perpetual war might just be the default state of humans.

Think of it this way: England falls out of an egg somewhere around 925, after a bunch of unification wars. A couple decades pass, then another generation of warfare. Things are calm for a few years, then they get conquered. After calming down for a few…

I’m really not sure why you have taken an instant dislike to me.

Do you ever watch motorsports on TV? Ever watch Le Mans? Car people. These are car people, not yuppie douchebags that pronounce it correctly. I have the opposite reaction. People who pronounce it “porsh” make me think they’re philistines or hicks from the sticks.

It’s someone’s name. It’s not a matter of what you prefer or what you think it makes you sound like (which as others have noted, you’re wrong about anyway).

Saying Porsh just makes you sound like an uninformed entitled trust fund douchebag.

True.

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Fun fact, I used to hate you for 5 years back in the early 90's.

As a TDI owner, I think the whole thing is ridiculous. I bought the car for the performance and fuel economy, not because it was “clean”. I find it hard to believe that there are that many owners so worried about the environment that they need several thousand in additional compensation just to cope with being “duped”.

Hyrdogen? I’m not seeing it. You need a primary source of energy, to create electricity, to create free hydrogen, and then you need to store and convey hydrogen - a really dodgy task, as hydrogen is fabulously hard to contain without leaks and quite dangerous once it does leak - to get it into the car.

Apparently half of you need glasses or have a pretty low bar for standards. Exactly half at the moment.