Well, I've been saying this for a while now, Audi drivers are the new BMW drivers when it comes to ass-hattery. The douchebags have moved on, it's time that the old stereotype does too.

The only "cool" thing about it is that the rear hatch is so enormous that the windows open a little when the hatch get's closed, otherwise the pressure might blow the windshield out.

This is coming from Germany, so it's a completely different environment, but our local BMW/Mini dealer had to re-do their show-room to comply with BMW's directives. They want the Starbucks experience. Whenever you walk into a dealership, it looks familiar. As a BMW driver, you feel at home, even if it's somewhere far…

We can get pick-ups and muscle cars. Tons of specialised importers like http://www.en.geigercars.de/service-tuning… will happily get you whatever you desire. It's just not a big market. Most US cars aren't that desirable over here.

From what I've read, they will only display a ginormous "Borgward" d´badge. But we'll see in a few weeks.

Thanks for the credit! I was happy to help you guys, but this one just didn't feel right. Maybe publishing this can keep a few people from buying cars unseen? If so, that would make me happy.

I don't really understand why the concept of parking heaters seems so foreign to people in the US. http://www.webasto.com/index.php?id=1… In Europe they are on the options list of almost any major manufacturer and tons of places can retrofit them, too. They use a little gas or diesel (about half a litre per hour) to…

B-2 over Pasadena? What did Sheldon do this time?

Say what you will about F1 (and there indeed is a lot say) but I can not remember Bernd Mayländer committing such a fuck up. He has been around for quite a while now and his performance has been stellar as far as I can remember.

I might be wrong here, but I think they made more than 100 manual W8 wagons. They just didn't import more than 100 to the US. The total number of manual W8 wagons WORLDWIDE is somewhere in the four or five digits, so not a really rare car at all.

Am I right in believing that the ten people who want one and actually put their money where their mouth is will buy in the first MY, so that VW can say "I told you so!" and kill the manual after two years?

And that's just his Fourza garage, wait till you see the cars he has in GT6!

He is right about one thing, though, the Tc is based on the Avensis. Which makes makes it even more worrysome that they market it as something "sporty" in the US. The rest doesn't make sense to me. The whole post doesn't even respond to the Auris being a boring car. Maybe, he thinks that once it lands on US shores,…

I wouldn't even go so far as calling this rear end ugly. It's simply what happens when you try to sample every other car on the market. I detect a bit of Civic Pavian-butt, a hint of Focus tail lights, and a bit of Hyundai's "let's not risk anything by making it look comtemporary without it being offensive in any way,…

They aren't selling too well in Europe, maybe they had some spare ones lying around?

Probably, but it's not the homeowners problem, it's the driver's. How can he know when he gets the call that this particular homeowner has it, and that he is free to go beserk to get there ASAP?

Well, to be fair there are times of transition when even automakers are confused about how to badge their cars. Like the Datsunissans that had both badges for a while, or this rare example from the famous Daimler/Chevy years that lives down the street. I'm half inclined to wait and see what kind of person drives such…

The fire truck driver would have had to pay for the damage on the Skoda. German law is a bit weird when it comes to this.

What you see here is them forming a "Rettungsgasse" emergency lane if you will. Doing so is part of the driver training and there are posters on the side of the road or on overpasses to remind people how it's done. There are parts where the hard shoulder isn't wide enough, especially on over- or underpasses, so using…

Ah, I didn't know that the E was still sitting on the D's platform. You can learn something everyday!