He doesn’t have “policies”. He has “concepts” of policies.

And possibly/probably syphilis.

That would make WAAAY more sense as to why they did it. To reduce evaporative emissions, which is a big part of the PZEV rating.

These really don’t rust even up north. It’s the drivetrain that will bankrupt you.

I owned one. Not a chance in hell unless you want to spend a million bucks to go a million miles.

I owned the much simpler, FWD non-turbo version of this. It was an absolute money pit, and had I not been a DIY’er it would have been a shop queen too.

I bought a very nice, clean inside and out, 120K 2004 V70 non-turbo (the simplest one) with full dealer service records in 2020. it cost me over $6K in parts to put it right over the next two years, and that was doing 90% of the work myself. And it still had transmission issues (they all do, Volvo initially said…

All of the fluids in these must be drained.

The fact that VWs are considered pretty bulletproof in the rest of the world, and my own experience of them very much aligning with that, makes me think the problem is not the cars, but the average American idiot driver and/or mechanic. <shrug>

The Tesla\Musk fanbois apologists are even funnier. And a little bit sad.

Ok, the media needs to chill out. Milton was NOWHERE NEAR what was expected. It weakened to a CAT 3 by landfall, and even though I live on the “dirty side” where the talking heads predicted my area would be washed off the planet, the storm surge was about 1/3 of predictions, and the damage was relatively minimal. Not…

Huh? Fits, GTIs, and TSXs are all really great cars too. Personally, I would have the right GTI over one of these, simply because it’s more than fast enough and a LOT more useful, but I am not a billionaire who can just choose “all of the above”.

It certainly seems to take a certain level of loser to writer here these days, other than a couple of people who write very specific columns, aka Tom McP and the NP or ND guys whose name always escapes me. The rest of them seem to be a bunch of clueless kids.

I am very much with you. Yet another ugly billionaire’s codpiece. Yawn.

I doubt anyone is going to use this to commute for work - and if someone wanted to, I am pretty sure the airline would cut you a *healthy* discount on the ticket price. They are going to use it for weekend getaways. And this sort of service is popping up all over to vacation destinations and most of them are doing…

They are flying from an FBO (aka private plane terminal) at Van Nuys to an FBO at Palm Springs. No dealing with TSA and the Hoi Poloi in an airline terminal, literally role up 10 minutes before the flight, get on, and go. THAT is why people pay for this sort of thing.

I worked for Staples right out of college for a year 30-odd years ago. The warehouse in MA found a pallet of early laser printers that had been collecting dust in a corner for quite a few years. Randomly shipped them to our store, with a $49.99 price on them. Not one made it to the floor, the employees, myself…

A car sitting for 20 or 30 years is going to have lots of issues. Eight, meh, probably not. Change the fluids and drive the thing.

If I had his money I would have a hell of a garage. Probably even one of these, because why not? To him, the cost of it is less than pocket change is to me.

For the moment, the big draw of these “scheduled charter” operations is that you get to skip the main terminal/TSA “experience” and fly from FBOs just like actual private flying.