Or, you can use the rear brake at parking lot speed. You’ll still have to use the clutch (a lot), but you won’t abuse it quite as badly.

“is in much worse shape than I expected, making it, quite possibly, the rustiest, crustiest vehicle I’ve ever owned. And that’s saying something.”

These are some seriously strong words.

Goodness, the MKIII has aged well!  That’s a handsome car.

Good man! Ratty NAs may easily be the most carefree fun in the automotive world.

Fair enough, but the NA can pretty much be made fun with a 1omm wrench and copious swear words. They are REALLLLY cheap and easy to keep running.

Mine isn’t super clean, but boy is it ever fun.

I’ll be that guy.  Maybe should have bought the NA.

Bingo!

Well played!

As do I.  So good looking.

Does it?  That’s great!

A complete world full of panthers and only 3 power windows that roll down in the entire collective group.

Really any trim of the Golf Sportwagen is the answer.

I do like the image is the diesel GTD though.  Even better.

VW Golf.

I win.

I’ll show myself out.

Thank you.  Been bugging me as well.

You’re missing the point. Manual customers can drive manual, sure, but DSG customers?  Most of those just consider the transmission to be an auto, when it’s somethig different entirely and tows under the rules of a manual. 

Respectfully, I disagree. It’s not a dig at American driver so much as it’s a fact that we, by and large, can no longer drive stick. The non DSG Auto is (or at least was) rated in the US.  The sticking point in our lack of knowledge on the whole as a group of drivers. 

I’m referring more to the fact that the DSG Golf Sportwagen  has no rating at all in the us, when it’s is indeed more than capable of towing a small trailer. It wouldn’t have killed VW to give it a 1500 lb rating, but they don’t trust American drivers to understand how a DSG actually works. The rules for towing with…

True!

Pretty sure the US ratings are derivative of the fact that the average Golf buyer in the US has no idea how to tow...

Litigious society and all that jazz.

I got dis...