If it’s not called “DOTS” i’ll just be disappointed.

This year’s Festival of Speed is the first car race that I had ever attended. I had done c&cs and parade laps at the local track but hadn’t attended larger events. I feel spoiled now as i don’t know that any event would ever have provided as great of an atmosphere and experience. The festival eclipsed anything that i…

One of my earliest google experiences was googling my own name and coming to find out that another “Charles Sprinkle” sued cops, cops supervisor, and wife of supervisor after being ticketed for driving without a license (initial stop for speeding i believe) basically claiming that driving is for commercial purposes…

Index of refraction mismatch within the windscreen looks like the culprit here.

Went with one of the pictured vehicles. ‘15 GTI. :D But 2-door, because giant doors and no kiddos yet (but it was a consideration and maybe by the time it’s paid off).

You know this is Lanesplitter: Jalopnik right? Therefore opinion of “scooter meh; motorbike YAY!” applies.

ha! went the opposite way and traded the tdi for a ‘15 GTI because commute significantly shortened and not worth the early common rail potential issues.

damn. beat me to it.

This article is so perfect to come across as i spotted one this morning on my commute into work and thought it was quite a sharp looker.

Eh. Should owner’s be outraged? No.
Annoyed, sure.
Too many other things in the world to be outraged about. You have a car that operates pretty well getting you from A to B. Sure it pollutes a little higher than you expected, but it still works, and they should know as conservationists that the energy cost to buy-back,…

Hope i get to see this at the FoS. Lined up a trip to England with Goodwood right in the middle.

Glad to see this was the first comment i saw.

Perfectly stated. Others may have understood but apparently i misread through first read.

Interesting that it actually has the same output as the GTI and not the S3/Golf R. I chalk that up to audi not wanting to cannibalize sales from the S3. I’m sure some intrepid tuners will look into the turbo swap as seen in the mk7 gti to boost it to the s3/R levels of HP. Or chiptune, because easy.

Yeah, they were clever in that sense to make sure there was no overlap of individuals using the loyalty bonus and those getting the goodwill package. I was considering doing the same when a coworker said “go claim your money” and fine print says have to own the affected TDI as of 11/8/15.

Only if you can get a dealer willing to work with the $2k deal now that it’s expired.

Glad i took the 2000 dollar credit toward a new GTI instead.

I’ll say it... it looks like something someone clever at a vinyl shop could make for alotttt cheaper than $225.

All the galvanizing paint in the world (read as zinc-rich, aluminum-rich, magnesium-rich) won’t save that undercarriage. But it might be a start.

because aero wheels look dumb. Just like smoothie/ aero hub caps look bad. And i suppose for cooling purposes or something.