I think the Germans basically rate their engines for worst case scenario (i.e. hot and high). Look at BMWs, they have about the same HP on paper as their peers, yet they always manage to be faster 0-60, etc. This is especially possible with turbo engines. Sometimes gearing and weight also has something to do with it…
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Oh yeah, I just remembered somebody actually managed to reverse-engineer the protocol and write an alternate control app:
Programmers are lazy, especially if they were contractors (sourced locally or from across the world) who couldn't give a rat's ass. That's the scariest thing about the impending flood of connected devices and the Internet of Things. Just look at all the IP connected security cameras out there and deployed with trivial…
Have you driven one? I have a diesel X5 and the motor suits the car much more than the gas engine. 550-600 mile range is nothing to sneeze at either.
Have you driven one? I have a diesel X5 and the motor suits the car much more than the gas engine. 550-600 mile range is nothing to sneeze at either.
Have you driven one? I have a diesel X5 and the motor suits the car much more than the gas engine. 550-600 mile range is nothing to sneeze at either.
Oh if BMW would only bring over the facelifted 1 series. I loved how the 228i drove but my practical reality means I just can't do a 2 door car.
Word has it that the 8" screen available everywhere else (as an option) will be available in the 2016 model year.
Why not a 3 series? It's the V60's direct competitor.
That's sometimes another advantage of leasing (actually, it's really just more of reason no. 3 given by Tom) — some manufacturers subsidize leases to move metal.
When is the time on Sprockets when they dance?
In fact last year I bought a one year old X5 diesel and have been delighted with it, and I saved a lot of money over buying new (though of course not nearly as much as buying a 3 year old one, but then it'd be 3 years old instead of 1). It's still under factory warranty and free maintenance, but the only warranty…
Nothing wrong with wanting VW to succeed. Right now, except for the GTI, they don't really make the quirky cars that VW fans loved in days of old, but they don't make cars that will sell in volume either.
Wow, I had one that looked exactly like that. It was my first new car, and the first of three consecutive Passats (B3/B4/B5), and still my favorite. I had it only two years until it was wrecked but I don't recall it being particularly unreliable. My B4, now that was unreliable until they replaced the ECU under…
In addition to the heated seats and Bluetooth already mentioned, I really like the heated steering wheel. Sounds frivolous until you try it on a cold day, especially if you've been outside for any length of time.
A330 has no boom. The KC-45 would have had a boom.
Yeah, especially since the engines on the MiG-29 are the worst things about that plane, and yet they have no choice but to use them.
Why don't they build the Sport Turismo? That's one of the best looking sedans/wagons/shooting brakes ever designed.
Yeah, the first 6 were all overweight, non-standard, and/or considered dogs performance-wise, and no airline was interested in them, and Boeing basically had to write the first three (ZA001-003) off.