PA stopped issuing registration stickers for the top corner of the plate to save $3 million dollars a year. I was surprised as it was a very easy way to get pulled over. 

They did this to the Q7 and call it the Q8. So why is this not called the Q4? 

I think they plan to take a page out of Porsche’s playbook. They mentioned they will have several interior color options including optional color seat belts. Porsche charges like $3k for colored seatbelts and everyone knows that cost pennies to change. There is added complexity on the line but they aren’t producing…

Young people don’t want handouts, they want the same opportunities older generations had. There is plenty of data showing housing and college tuition have far outpaced inflation and wage growth over the years. The math doesn’t lie.

I think this is the ultimate reason they cling to the Union. They are not skilled trades, and outside of the automotive industry they have nothing on their resume for other jobs. Millennials are portrayed as the generation of entitlement and yet I look at boomers who demand pay raises and pensions for the most mind…

My fiancée wants an outback next. I think I could swing her to this as it will be easier and probably cheaper to maintain. 

Cherokee is less wagony (if that’s a word) than the others. And The European competitors are way more money. The Buick is...well a Buick. 

It is actually the opposite. The falling sales of the regular Focus are to blame (a result of the DCT fiasco and the market shifting to crossovers). R+D is shared for on the platform. High sales of regular Golf, Civic, Focus etc. help pay for the means to offer fun models. Now I probably see more GTIs that regular…

The Escape rides on the same platform and starts at like $25k. That Crossover/truck tax is real..and people are willing to pay it.

Ehhh maybe not, totally different markets. I remember I was at NAIAS when Acura finally debuted the NSX and Ford surprised everyone with the new GT. They really stole the limelight that year from Acura.

It’s my understanding that even the dual clutch in the mk3 in Europe was a wet unit while North America got a dry one.

Yeah I familiar with that. Still didn’t know the real mk2 got a dual clutch at any point. 

We have a FoST and a regular focus with this trans. For a couple a young professionals they get the job done fairly comfortably and economically. And when new in 2012 it was pretty progressive to have Bluetooth, tons of airbags etc. in an economy car. The regular focus has some jerkiness but nothing major (knock on…

Fairly certain all Focii prior to 2012 had old school slushbox automatics. Not sure how your could have driven one with a wet clutch.

The way I read that statement was Mulally instituted improved quality standards and other people ignored them. 

And now the EcoSport has the same 2.0 engine with a standard automatic trans. Idk how old the trans in the EcoSport is but at some point couldn’t they have put that in the Focus instead?

Then yours was faulty in other ways. Most Of these transmissions experience very jerky shifting, as if you are letting the clutch out in a manual without giving it enough gas. We have 2014 Focus with this trans, a 2016 ST with a manual, and another vehicle with a CVT. The DPS6 in the regular Focus and the manual in ST…

This is the correct solution, at least in the US. Crossovers which are more inefficient than sedans (admittedly the gap is closing) do more to prop up the average mpg of trucks than lower the average mpg of passenger vehicles. 

I don’t know where ThatsAgood1jay lives either but here is suburban Milwaukee I hardly see stock trucks. Even the suburbanites put stupid wheel/tire combinations on that I’m sure kill fuel economy and ride quality.

I had to go to Chattanooga a few times for business in 2013-2015 and the number of Passats driving around there was not indicative of their market share at all. So many Passats.