Ugh. With a MANUAL? No thank you.

I don’t see a business case for this. I like the looks of it... but mostly because it’s rare - not available in the US, so I only see a photo here or there.

Yup.  PreRefresh Traverse was the Mehest of the Meh.  It always amazes me how much the mid cycle refresh improved the looks of that vehicle.  And it was a mild refresh.  Couple plastic bits, new lights and voila, nice vehicle.

I’ll go halfsies on an assault charge with you.

You’re brought joy to my life by posting this.

Um. Dude. Start crapping.

You and your goddamn script. I ran it and my laptop’s transmission stopped working.

Every damn time.  Every single VW.  Purely perfect interiors.  Everything within reach, no stupid squiggles and strange angles.  

It really is huge. I loved my 2014 for that reason. You could land planes in the passenger area of the Passat.

Morvan and the journalists were followed to the cave by a strange local man who is quoted as saying:

This was always a no go for me for purchase because of that squashed greenhouse.  Now with an added Velar nose (those things are fuuugly in person) the new one is a double no go. Wish I could afford a Range Rover Sport.  THOSE things are sweet.

“Inherently reasonable” is a very arguable point.   Counterpoint could be any number of vulgarisms followed by the word “off”.

Yawn. Always with the Scandinavian countries. First, second-person-you could argue whether it’s a specialized welfare state or something resembling socialism. Second, whatever it is seems to work for a tiny subset of homogenous cultures in a tiny part of the world. How come instead of mentioning the Scandinavians you…

I believe that this is my favorite article AND my favorite set of comments so far this year on Jalopnik. And the names of the people commenting somehow fit in even more with the thread. For example, readers:

That is seriously spooky, Jason. To be fair, if you don’t understand the languages, all Scandinavian speech, and especially the music, sounds like a summoning. And it might be. I played the link below in my car once and I swear my Passat now moves internal components on its own every time I enter the garage at night.

Because they offer alternatives which have been proven to fail at the cost of millions of lives.  How about providing another way that did NOT fail critically time and time and time and time again?

Get that idea saleable, and I’ll be your first customer

You sit up straight, but do it in a Chevy. They’re gangsta mama jammas.

Automotive version of the “O” face?

While I’m not a BMW fan in general, this thing does not press any of my hate buttons. It’s not pretty, but I’ve seen a good dozen MUCH uglier vehicles introduced in the last year. And that “not pretty” will not sway people away from the purchase, because the thing has presence on the outside and looks pretty damn…