It was money well spent.

After clicking this link, but before I read the text, I thought and decided with grumpy-cat-like stubbornness, “It was money well spent.” And we wonder whether people have fixed ideas that they cling to without regard to evidence...

Ah. I see. Whereas with an American car, a rattle or grinding noise is just something you learn to live with while cranking up the radio. That actually makes more sense than it should.

The problem with all this is this: if a used car has mileage/year to qualify as a CPO, but it isn’t, doesn’t that suggest it doesn’t qualify as CPO. Like, just making that a standard kind of sorts out the used cars, doesn’t it?

Imagine I know nothing about where used car lots get their cars...

(What should we be doing? I have several European cars. That I’d rather not see grenade themselves...)

Wow. I scrolled down to make a comment and literally forgot the name of the car in 5 seconds. Mercury...started as laser...no, it’s gone. Wow.

Well done, sir.

Serious question, as a five-time TDI owner: what happens to a car that sits on a dealer lot since 2014 or 15? It is really a new car? I’m vaguely interested, but knocking 8k off the price of a brand new car that has sat in the South getting rained on and whatnot for a few years...it’s a little scarier than a used car…

Dude, yes. New Cat? Translation: burning fuel is shooting past the chipped/cracked exhaust valves and roasting everything.

New cat is like “oh, this mineshaft is awesome. But, there’s this superstitious thing where you have to keep replacing the canary in this cage because the canary dies every few days”.

Or, perhaps,…

Driving my convertible TDI Beetle to work this morning, I really decided this very thing: convertibles are good. I seriously think I would drive a Chevy Cavalier convertible if necessary. With the wind on, the warm sun on my fat, bald pate...it’s heavenly. When it’s night, you drop a little music, there’s just nothing…

Totally. I have a Jetta with 255k. Miles cost zero; my buyback price can’t get any lower. So cheap.

I should add, my ten-year-old just read this article and is now in bed crying...yikes. He’s truly my son!

Totally! I have five of them right now, but I have a full-on attachment to my Golf and Beetle Convertible. I thought I’d be fine with it because money, but seeing them all lined up like that, seeing my cars there and knowing how it will all end...before they even had chance to go electronics-wonky and make me hate…

RE: Skinner, there is a part of California substantially populated of descendants of Okies fleeing the dustbowl. Kern County and the surrounding interior, agricultural counties are included. Hence, in country and western music, there is a “Bakersfield sound”, a bit out of fashion at the moment, but still illustrative…

Alright. I’ll just say it and risk all my street cred: it’s fun. I like it. If it’s between this and a 1999 Ford Mustang, why not?

Wow. I was planning to keep two of my five TDIs until the 2018 deadline fix. Now that I know they’ll hand grenade if fixed, I may sellback in December an cash in all at once.

Yeah, guys. Torch speaks and writes in English. The ad, on its face, is deceptive, pure and simple.

I have a fabulous 2012 Golf TDI. I love it. But it’s zero to sixty in about 8 seconds. Nothing exceptional. No way would I pass up $5k to maintain the same mediocre speed.

I had a 40-gallon tank in mine. It ruled!

I am reminded of The Hobbit. Thorin and company took a costly journey, only to have to face a dragon at the end, driven by their dwarvish lust for gold and vengence.