Couldn't agree more with you. It's as though I wrote it myself! Unless you're a pick-up driving cowboy, pets don't belong in cars. Period. Ok, perhaps if you are a Subaru-driving leasbian you can have your dog too.

Let's look at this objectively. Ball player parks car out in the sun. Turns said car into a rolling mirror. Absent a ballpark garage, best way ever to keep car cool for the drive back home.!

Agreed! It may be packed during rush hour, but it moves millions of people every day quite efficiently over a widespread area. It still beats living anywhere in dumbfuckistan America!

Yes, this!!!!!!

Amen, brother! Impressive as the technology may be, and don't get me wrong, it IS impressive, this car screams boy-racer at the top of its lungs. I can't see a "responsible adult" buying this thing. On top of that, it is F-U-G-L-Y with all caps to boot!

Fugly with boyracer written all over it.

I've always been a VW fanboy, since my first car ever, but man the Golf really needs a sheet metal refresh. If Ford would just get its shit together already and put a proper mechanical LSD in the Focus ST I would not even look at a GTI again.

VW should really take those hunches to their ultimate expression and make the Bug look a lot more like a poor man's 911. Until then, yeah, hair dresser's car, especially the ragtop version.

You couldn't pay me enough to do that!

I had one on my first car ever: a '76 Supper Beetle I got for $400. The slowest piece of crap ever! First thing I did was buy a used 4sp stick and a pedal assembly and swap that piece of crap out. Great car after that. Still miss it.

Thank you for the thorough explanation. Yes, the reaction time issue did occur to me, but I thought of perhaps some kind of "geared" stage where the pump is not completely disingaged, but rather switched to a less dragging gear when not fully needed. In the end, I suspect you are correct and we better get used to…

Just a crazy thought here. People love the "feel" and feedback of the good all mechanical steering system. Current hydraulic pumps have parasitic drag. No assist is needed on long, straightaway highway drives. Could we, just asking here, come up with a "clutched" hydraulic pump? It engages when actually needed and…

Booya! Well put, Mako!

"Multi-port is so 1990s." Carbon buildup is so now!

Muy grandes huevos!

An e-brake?

The only thing I can think would make this any cooler would be if the track were outdoors and with a little dusting of fresh powder. Wow, how much fun!

At the risk of offending all the fanboys out there, but for me it's "meh" on looks. Much prefer the cup version of the current model. Will get really interested, though, when this comes out as a turbo clownshoe.

Uh? Not strong enough to take off rolling down the deck off a ski jump, but yet strong enough for the controlled-crashes of carrier traps?

Back in the 80's I was an engineer working for on NAVSEA's program to convert old boomers into "moored training ships" in which to train our nuclear submariners. We used to do the conversions at the dry dock in the old Charleston Naval Shipyard. Part of the coversion was replacing the screws with a "water brake", or…