I had a 2005 Jetta with the time-bomb 2.5 liter straight 5. The timing chains stretch on these, throwing timing off or breaking outright at right around 70k miles. (yes, chains. Yes. PLURAL.) The powertrain warranty for these was 60k/60 months. I don't think they've changed the design significantly, and VW…

Seconded (Or probably Tenth-ed).

"The car would go farther, but I'm a giant sloppy pussy and want to go home."

Yes, very true. Especially since the car keeps getting bigger and heavier.

The EJ is a fantastic little motor - just getting long in the tooth. I wonder if they are having a problem getting reliable turbocharging working with the FA, and getting 300+ HP out of the thing reliably. I've seen the 650 HP BRZ videos, but for production, these things are expected to go 100k miles before…

I think it says "Die free BECAUSE RACECAR". No, that doesn't really make sense either.

I pronounce it like "wrecks", cause that's what teenagers do to them on snowy days when AWD obviously equals "invincible".

The "winch" they made out of tree-trunks was especially ingenious.

*snicker* "Jerk off the gas.

Wet fart over water detected?

Till with all the heating and cooling that happens in the engine compartment that little pneumatic arm fails and drops the hood down on your head when you're trying to check the oil. Ex Jetta owner here who wishes they'd just included the metal prop bar instead so he didn't have to carry around a 2x4 to work under…

I drove a 2005 VW Jetta for awhile (Volkswagen - Never Again). One of its only redeeming features was that it had auto-up and auto-down on all 4 windows, both in the driver's controls, and in all other doors' controls as well - even in the version I had, the "Value Edition", which was basically a half step below the…

Not a Westfalia. Not a Synchro. Not paying Synchro Westfalia money, even if you did put a Subaru H-6 in the back.

Well. Now there's a perfect example of turd-polishing. CP all the way.

Ah, yes. Except the "rules" for QOTD rarely stay exactly the same for the corresponding AOTD. Sometimes the latter doesn't even bear much resemblance to the former.

Ah, I see. You actually had to do the math in your post to be considered for the AOTD? Or did your submission's #1 function have to be transporting people (no, because we have the NASA crawler)? Because my submission of the Bagger 288 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_28…) had a figure of nearly 15 million…

The Bagger 288:

The Clarkson one isn't nearly fat enough...

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&… - Looks like a whole lot of I55 to me.

Driven that road many many times from Central IL up to the city, and I have to say, being a downstater, it's all our fault. The whole 55-355-294 mess is because it's all vacationers / weekenders headed up for a Cubs/Bears/Hawks game or what-not. They don't know where they're going. They're dealing with children. …