The average BaT buyer has more money than brains. When it comes to low mile normal stuff it isn’t the best way to shop the market. This is really just a used car.

I just miss when ze Germans made stick wagons. A friend of ours had a 2000 something 528i wagon with a manual and basket weave rims and it was gorgeous.  RIP manual wagons.

A mass production modern VW no less. No thank you.

Perfect example of mistaking rarity for value.  ND

For those of you that don’t remember the final days of the VW wagons, these were getting serious discounts. This clown probably paid this price for it new.

it’s simply not worth 30K. It’s a volkswagen!

This car is not a collectible, nor is it desirable. It may be a rare combo, but it’s a mass-production car and not worth what the seller is asking. ND.

He knows what he’s got. Good for him. Hope he likes it, but that mileage indicates he hasn’t much.

The golden rule of design is that if one person makes a mistake, it’s user error. If A LOT of people make that same mistake, then there’s something you’ve got to fix. Why on earth does the ‘manual release’ have to be hard to find? You’re inside the car, so you own it, and it’s generally better to be able to open a…

Some things should just stay mechanical, and car door handles are one of them. The packaging benefits are not worth the danger it creates for consumers.

Electrically operated door latches should be legislated out of existence.  There is no practical reason for them. 

I’m definitely not anti-electric and have been on the fence about Tesla as a product since the Model S became popular, but this seals the deal; I’ll never buy one and I’d be reluctant to get in one. 

“Move fast and break thingspeople.”

Electric doors are a horrible idea.

This:

The federal government mandates how power window switches should be designed and function, for the sake of safety. The requirements are very common sense. This has been covered on Jalopnik before. Same goes for transmission shift patterns, etc. WHY CAN’T SUCH A RULE BE PASSED FOR FUCKING DOOR HANDLES?!?

If you have to have a mechanism built into the door for manual release anyway, why the hell not just have the door handle use that to open in the first place instead of connecting to an electrical system?

No, he just doesn’t care if he does.

This is the problem when startups come about and challenge the “status quo” and “conventional wisdom”.

The wisdom part is usually there for a reason.

Pretty sure this bunch lacks the critical thinking skills to enable learning. Our best hope (plus the workers in Gov under the political appointees who actually DO things).