@MissingPieces: I'm not a snobby hipster queer and I have a GTI. If you get one we can start a club or something. On a serious note, beware of massive maintenance costs for the DSG. I got it because I thought I was moving to traffic hell (L.A.) but now wish I was rowing my own.

@Al Navarro: I like my GTI, a lot (I hope its got all its quality issues out of its system though). I feel like VW is trying to take a bigger share of US sales by being more American instead of improving on what they're good at. If they can bring prices down and quality up then the sales will come. If they continue…

@Flathead Smith: I think you're right since the license plate says "HRLEWUD"

I don't think this is going to help unless they also plan on sending out ninjas with pry bars to pop off the GM badges from all the crap they've been putting them on for the last 5 years

I can attest that this Prius (or one quite similar to it) goes painfully slow up the Grapevine on I-5. My fiance says to me "Slow down I want to see it!" I did, but 55 wasn't slow enough for them to catch up to me. Eventually on a downhill I pulled in behind a truck and let them go by. A very cool way to make a car…

@Qutaiba_ELLEEL: Only R&T lists a faster time to 60 than the ZR1 for the LP 560-4. So it depends on whose numbers you use. Test the cars the on the same track with the same driver close to the same time and then see who is the winner.

Launch control: the Bracket Racer's best friend.

Hi, my name is Jark and I've been cable and satellite free for almost three months now. I just want to say I don't miss watching those Teutul douchebags one bit.

I can't decide if I want mine in matte black or covered in Line-X... and I'm not even a truck kind of guy

@Jeb_Hoge: I'd be willing to bet the GM execs imagined it and killed the Camaro Z28 so it wouldn't compete with the CTS-V coupe

@FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh?: Don't forget the MKZ (2000)... so add 111-1999 to that, minus 160 since there's already a MKT also

@layabout SAVE THE JALOP 9 !: I believe that's now known as Velocity Yellow. I hear the golfers love it.

If it's Corolla-based maybe they could build it at NUMMI. That would make a lot of people in Fremont happy.

There are worse things than Bondo.

@e30m3: Any hooligan knows that's hardly a Hofmeister! Heresy!

Z2 please? Wait, I can't make out a Hofmeister kink. Van Hooydonnnnnnnnnnk!

Way back in the R-complex section of my brain something just went ker-thunkety-thunk.

GM: See! We really are going to build some sort of almost electric car this time! For realsies!

Will I ever buy another VW? I suppose the next 60,000 miles will have a large influence on that but I'm afraid I'm like the women with low self-esteem who keep going back to their abusive boyfriends. I don't deserve any better.

@jark: The hamsters ate my html link