Yes. Because it’s always including VAT in Europe. Quoting a price without VAT doesn’t make sense, because you cannot buy a new car without VAT and VAT is always the same percentage.

This feels like an important, yet neglected, point. Readers— and frankly, probably manufacturers— look at the later model year manual take rates and see a declining trend (only 20%), when in reality, the *total* take rate over all combined model years tells the more relevant story.

It may only really matter on a track, but high speed aerodynamic stability is a thing regardless of what wheels are driven.

The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.

The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.

tbh the UAW is one of the worst unions around. There’s a real reason the Japanese/German brands are based in the South (want to fire a worker that can’t preform at a Toyota/Honda standards? lol good luck)

It’s not the tire that makes it look cheap. It’s the shitty looking wheel.

Depends where you are I guess. Ford (and then Ford-owned Volvo) introduced a wet clutch DCT in 2007. There’s a 2008 road test right here.

It’s pretty sad how shit those transmissions were considering how the rest of the car could actually be halfway-decent, especially in nicer trims. I have a FoST and it’s given me 50k miles of trouble-free fun so far, I absolutely love the thing. Of course, the ST’s all came with the correct number of pedals.

You couldn’t tell the difference between a DCT and a CVT?  Have you actually driven a CVT?  It’s basically the exact opposite of a DCT.

Since OEMs are Gaming the CAFE system with using light truck classification for corssovers, the solution is simple. Either eliminate the light truck classification or add a tow/cargo capacity requirement to push the crossovers into the passenger car category where they belong.
This would eliminate the benefit of…

I worked a NASA event at Sonoma last weekend, and during the HPDE 1/2 group someone was driving a Corolla similar to the one in the video. Plus this group had not one, but two Hyundai Elantras!

Funny how the expensive gasoline shows up instantly at the pump nozzle yet when things clam down back to normal it takes weeks for the cheaper gasoline “to work its way throught the system”.

I live in TN so I have a vested interest in the VW factory thriving, but as a liberal (there are a few of us in TN, we have a special handshake so we can identify each other safely) I’m ostensibly pro-union.

Good, the UAW is a sleazy and corrupt mess. I hope they get ripped by the Gov’t for essentially mob practices. Also, nice bias in the article there, “But for now, it’s another unfortunate setback for labor in the U.S., although I have to wonder if any of the UAW leaders caught embezzling in recent years actually give…

I would imagine a great many Jeep buyers have no idea that the axles/suspension are any different than what they would get from some random crossover.

Take my star. I’m 5'8" and I have difficulty climbing up into these things, and worse, getting out. Not to say a low slung sedan is easy at my age (64), but these big things are worse IMO.

How much of a narcissist do you have to be to not only comment about an entirely different motorsport during this event, but to make this off-topic comment for the sole purpose of self-glorification?

Range is not the metric that developers ought to be focusing on anyway. It is charging times. People are waiting for battery technology to allow them to charge up in the same length of time it takes for them to fill their gas tank. Range plays a part, sure, but people are more concerned about fitting an electric into…

Atlanta is the busiest.