That’s actually correct first aid though, to never move the injured unless there’s a clear imminent danger. It’s kind of a 50-50 call in this case unless someone saw fire. I’m guessing you know that.

The Japanese guy who designed the original Z is not on that list? I’m not a fan of that list then.

When the best player is PK and everyone else is a curmudgeonly cunty old white guy trying to make the kids fight more?

Quis custodiet eos rudi, de factis amicum meum. Sorry, just had to go for the Latin on this one, smarmy points.

But a basic understanding is usually not good enough for the pop quiz of the mechanic saying ‘here’s the bad ball joint what do you think?’. I have changed fluids and filters and know what the car is, but if you showed me a bad bearing, I wouldn’t know what I was looking at. Rather than know things, it’s so much…

So I take it the best thing to do is tuck everything in (elbows, fists and knees I mean) and press your head against the headrest and try to enjoy the ride with eyes closed?

This is an excellent point...if I have that much money for tires, I’m going with a Porsche.

The best independent study I’ve seen (via tdiclub discussion) is that the extra NOx emissions caused around 42 deaths which would have not happened otherwise, annually. VW sold its first cheater-diesel in 2007, so let’s say that’s an average of 35 extra deaths annually from 2007 to 2015 (because fewer cars were on the…

Yup quite right and I realize that - mine was three years and two months at scandal time, so I’m guessing it had a book value of around $12K plus mid-range compensation (e.g. $3,500), plus the $1K they handed me for good will already. Whatever it is would be enough for a good used car, they’ll have a lot of…

This is all still reports and rumors and leaks - let’s just wait until the deal is announced in 15 hours or so, and stop speculating....

COTD? Have a star.

I totally agree with the comment on Rory, and yes that segment was too short for such an important type. Adding the Mercedes comparison was an inspired choice, as I was also waiting for comparison with the Golf R. I hope they’ll do more on hot hatches this season including dumbest mods - it’s one category most here…

That is nucking futs - I love it.

Just came back to Montreal after ten months in the US and I have to say - WHAT IS UP WITH AMERICANS??

I’m guessing Clarkson was fired ‘for cause’ meaning no severance or special compensation, in exchange for BBC not filing criminal assault charges against him. If so / regardless, BBC can just eat Evans’ contract and pay him to not-host the show - they have other hosts on contract of some kind anyway.

I was with you until you said ‘we’re likely at that point’. I don’t know how you’d judge; there are some really interesting things going on in the industry including in manufacturing processes, and constraints / regulation can function as an incentive to develop new technology as we’ve seen. Being uncomfortable with a…

In Quebec it seems to be either VW or Subaru. I swear we're one of the top markets for VW on this continent on a per-capita basis.

I'm sure you're right about fanboys but I'm a fan and also recognize that German engineering is usually overkill and not built for maintenance but some kind of weird empirical perfection. I need a sensor replaced for example, and it costs five hours of labour ($850 plus tax = just under a thousand Canadian bucks!),…

I like what you're saying. What VW could do is introduce Skoda in the US to protect their brand image and segments and skip Polo entirely. But I would bring in Polo to satisfy the Volks who make less, and provide a full range, encourage lifetime ownership, etc. I'm sure everyone on this board would all do tons of…

I can't think how exchange rates would be in play, unless you mean revenue flows to Germany. If the Polo is manufactured in the RSA and bought in the US, the currency flows from US dollars to South African rand and we assume the product is profitable at manufacture, rand for rand. Likewise manufacturing in Spain…