In chronological order? Hmm, lemme think:

It is hilarious seeing how many “genius” Euro Auto company CEOs get it sooo badly wrong in the US. And you’re right about Fiat, they know exactly how precarious their situation still is, hence Sergio trying to cozy up to whoever is nearest at any given moment.

I guess it’s easy for us to point out how much Europe and…

Certainly sounds like they still struggle to understand the US market, a smidge of arrogance from their top brass perhaps? Not paying attention to their German rival companies stealing a march by building SUVs (Mercedes) or just giving almost exactly the same line up as Europe (BMW). I guess aiming to “be the biggest”…

I have ordered pretty much the spec shown there, 2dr manual Lapiz blue with 19" Pretorias, I’m a very smug sonofabitch right now. Won’t be here until May though.

Ah that makes sense.

True, harsh though. I guess they’re no-longer able to rely on decent sales in the US anymore either after Dieselgate so less financial impetus to actually update a middling seller.
It does sound like they dropped the ball a bit with the Jetta and US Passat specs though. Building down to a price rather than up to a…

That makes a lot of sense. Though with the Mk8 due in ‘19 I wonder if they’ll make a big deal about it at all?
That said, I’m in the UK and I’ll just be happy to have anything without a border tax by that point...

Is the US spec car getting the same visual update/facelift as the ‘17 Euro Golf? Because the Euro version does look quite a bit sharper to my eye.

Also, odd seeing 18" Pretorias, I’m so used to 19's!

Good review though, it is a balanced/well judged entry into the hot hatch war. So good I’ve ordered one pretty much as…

How are GM going to deal with CAFE standards if they’re axing smaller cars? Hybrid everything? Electric Trucks?
Also, can’t help but think that it seems more than a little short sighted to axe small cars at all. Though I’m no expert on long term auto-manufacturing trends I’m sure they could make American cars great…

I did always wondered where the engines they used sprouted from. Definitely an interesting history, I remember the R390 road cars and loving them to pieces at the time, I think I even had the blue road-going one as a screensaver on my old Win 98 PC. Suddenly I find myself liking McLaren road cars more...
Weirdly, from…

True, it is a pretty awful idea from a financial standpoint but what are Cadillac doing with their subscription service for luxury vehicles? The same thing?
Something that Jalop approved of?

“Maybe now I can finally get my Beetle to tweet me the number of each cylinder as it fires. That seems like a good use of this”
Why just tweet yourself? Maybe tweetspam someone who deserves it... Suggestions?

As a side note, I’m loving the possibilities like this.
Program a random word for each sensor input and have it…

Wasn’t just me who spotted that one then. Looks like winglets are back in fashion...

Well, now that Manor are no longer a thing I guess we’ve got to have some kind of “M” named team at the back with a “choose a colour - on black” paintjob.

Only messing, I’m sure it’ll work out fine. Really though, change that orange to red and I’d swear Manor were still around.

It does sound a lot like this motor may not have that much more headroom for tuning unfortunately.

I’m sure someone else will mention this too but the Euro spec ST advertises at “182 horsepower” but actually produces the exact same power as the US spec (197 ish). It’s just because it only produces the 197 on a limited 15 second “overboost”, that they technically can’t advertise it as being that amount, because it…

This, very much this...
Honestly, whilst I get that buying something you know over there is a good idea, the used car market in the UK is generally a brilliant thing in terms of choice and price.
We have some of the worst depreciation in Europe and we drive on the left. These two factors mean that you can get cheaper…

Be warned, if you leave a Scimitar too long they can go very bad....

(ok, so yeah, not this bad)

Well it sounds like they’ve distilled the formula down to it’s most successful parts, should be excellent then!
Hopefully they might be able to remind the other lot how a motoring show can actually hit the mark more than 40% of the time...

You forgot: Horseless carriages and Tea ;)