Driving a stick doesn’t make you hard. 

CVT’s with paddle shifters are among the dumbest things in cars today. If you want gears to shift, get an automatic. If you want to select gears, get a manual. If you want to spend your commute in a soul-crushingly boring “premium” small sedan, get a CVT.

THOSE PLAID SEATS!!!! Ugh, I miss weird interior fabric options. The last car I had with interesting fabric was an Impreza with funky grey tweed seats. It was awesome because the pattern was great at hiding dirt, which is always a good idea for an adventure shuttle. 

The Golf R Variant is at the top of my list for forbidden fruit. I’d buy one today if it was for sale here.

These are neat, but if I had my choice it would be a GTI wagon. The R wagon would also rip, but that’s too spendy for me. After a few years with a tuned Alltrack, I would be content with a wagon body, manual transmission, and the rest of the fun bits from a GTI. Literally the same car in a longboi version would be…

“GTI Is Always The Answer.”

3rd gen EA888 (MK7 GTI and above) is a properly reliable engine. I can speak from my 2016 GTI, that it was Toyota levels of reliable. As a car guy, I was ashamed to never having a reason to pop the hood or not seeing a VW with a CEL. If you get a manual GTI, get rid of the CDV (clutch delay valve) immediately. If you…

All the bullshit aside about “VW CELs” and “EURO UNRELIABLE,” I was also a 4th time GTI owner. From the MK5 and above, these cars have just been hard to beat as the best overall cars money can buy. My 2016 GTI was the icing on the cake for me, because It ticked every single box and I would truly recommend an MK7 GTI…

I love love love my ‘19 Golf Sportwagen 6MT, as I’ve mentioned many times. In May of our year of COVID, I did (deep breath): is38/MST intake/Unitronic tune/Koni SAs/Golf R springs/Golf R rear bar/S3 short shift linkage/312mm front brakes/Audi TTRS clutch/18" Pretoria wheels/Michelin Pilot 4S. I added an Integrated…

2019 GTI owner here, can confirm you should get the base interior with a stick and the slippy diff. All 2019s have the diff and bigger brakes.

do your scheduled maintenance and this generation of golf will pay it back in spades

Every tier of the golf has a stick. GTI gets a fun golf ball shifter.

We’ve owned two MK7s now. Picked up the Auhtobahn GTI in June of 2015 and ran it for 67k miles, then we traded it in for an R in 2017 before they switched to digital dash. Both rock solid. We’re almost to 70k on the R and everything just works, including the tech package with ACC, lane assist, etc. You feel the extra…

Yep. No issues with that, it’s a glorious manual. 

I purchased a Mk7 GTI about four years ago and have not had a single issue other than standard maintenance. It wasn’t long before I added APR stage 2 tune, intake, downpipe, DSG tune, summer rubber, etc. 60k miles of spirited driving and I have no intentions of buying a Mk8 or any other car. This one’s perfect and I…

I had four wonderful years with my ‘17 Sport. Only sold it because Carvana gave me an offer for it that once I picked myself off the floor I could not refuse, given I bought a 128i convertible I was barely driving it. *zero* issues, just a great all-around car. Whoever bought it from Carvana got a great deal too -…

My Vette ad in 2041: “This car is one of 64 NCRS-registered cars from 2021 that have the rare pinholes in the rims. Most of those cars had the wheels replaced by the dealer but I kept the original wheels. No lowballers - I know what I have”

Drilling holes in defective wheels is most likely to ensure they are scrapped instead of resold.

You’ve obviously paid zero attention.

They better hurry.....