The DSG will handle up to 400, they also have tunes for that as well. From what I’ve seen, the stock motor and transmission will take up to 400, after that you need to start replacing internal components of the motor.

I’m slightly interested. The wife is getting tired of me driving such a small car... but she’s absolutely delighted to rave about how fun and fast it is to drive to her mother.

There are probably witness videos, like the jackholes attending the side show that are always taking videos where we see a couple of morons in a car ripping up the street where the back end of the car punts another moron into the crowd. It almost seems impossible to me that there was a side show with 200 people…

That’s funny... I got an 86 Olds Cutlass, powder blue, 4 door, factory 305 but strangely with limited slip rear... previous owner was a grandmother. Owned it 2 weeks when the oil pump started to go. I asked my mechanic if we could replace it, “Eddie... we have to yank the motor for that...”

 They’re reviewing it to see if the cameras show the cop planting the gun.... oh, sorry, because it’s an ongoing investigation and probably shows the faces of undercover Detroit PD.

When naming your mascot... why wouldn’t you go over the potential things people might think they heard when you yelled its name or things you could easily change its name to?

It’s much heavier than the GTI or GolfR, you won’t notice the 300 hp in the Arteon if you side by side drive it against a GTI (I’m guessing). I couldn’t imagine this thing being ‘sporty’ with the previous lower output mills they provided. 300 hp in this pig should make it feel more like a GTI.

Not technically a hatchback... but it’s close enough that most people might just call it a hatchback. So like DeWayneV8 notes, it’s bigger than the GTI, the back of the car opens and since it’s got the EA888 motor used in the GTI & GolfR, you can tweak it out and up the output to higher than stock to just about 400 hp…

Probably not, modern air brakes don’t apply the brakes when you step on the pedal, the air pressure keeps them open so when you push the pedal down, it’s releasing pressure from the system. This way, if you lose air pressure in the system, the vehicle will stop.

I work with engineers and their department still uses whatever the ‘system’ is that measures in inches. I went to college and studied physics and department rules were basically “SI or F”. The ‘F’ stood for ‘Fail’ because that’s the grade you would get if it wasn’t in SI units.

I’m not blaming my wife for making me get the GTI with the DSG. She just said she wouldn’t drive it into or out of NYC if it was a stick. Then I drove my old Beetle with a stick and realized that you can’t grab a bottle of water or your morning coffee if you have to keep grabbing a gear shift.

Someone with Acrotomophilia?

That is probably the best, garbage answer I have read here yet. I was positive these things weren’t available here... until I found Ural of New England and shit... I don’t want to spend $24k on a motorcycle and side car... but I may just have to.

You never posted video of the experience that directly led to diarrhea, the diarrhea event (important point on this, should probably not show the diarrhea, just you suffering so we can all laugh at you or it will be taken down) or your post-diarrhea suffering, showering and/or exhaustion.

Live in NYC and drive a car there for a few years, you get all the practice you’ll need.

Dieseling can also occur from excessive oil blow by from EGR or contamination.

Maybe he meant those bags of chili ingredients you buy that indicate to ‘add this to x, y and z’ and are mostly just chili powder and spices. Or a bag of chili powder, which, depending on where it came from, might just be a big ol’ bag of powdered cayenne.

As others pointed out, chance of death from the virus is much higher than you wrote. SkookumAsFrig33 notes bottom line and that is part of it for sure and a darned easy way to push a policy through the corporate maze at a huge company... and as we’ll see, comes full circle back...

Jello Biafra might agree... “So this is Oregon, huh? Tolerant Oregon.”

Maybe someone at the NYT’s knew him or had him as a professor and decided, “Oh, I remember that clown... print it... bastard gave me a D in my Freshman year and now I’m on the editorial board of the NYT... guess who’s getting a D now?”