Lucas Electrics. Enough said.

#2 is a British car. The jump must have wreaked havoc on the car’s electrics.

You’re not even good a being a criminal! Go sort your shit out, get a job

ONE MILLION STARS FOR YOU! This should have been IN the article.

Couldn’t resist the temptation of low-hanging fruit :D

Yeah, I was going to link to this too.

The trail most likely ends with Piëch. The ea189 took years of development and billions of dollars.

Yup, same thing happens all around the world in every industry, hell I’d throw academia in there as well.

But Lutz was correct on the corporate culture of VW. And Piech was over Winterkorn. For all we know, this could have come down from Piech to Winterkorn (or not). Remember, Piech would get his way. The Veyron, was his “you build it to be the fastest production car, no matter what”, the VW XL1, was “you build this 1…

Piech demanded ridiculous things and didn’t care much how engineers got there. Lutz isn’t always right but he’s 100% correct here, VW is going to write off $18B+ because of Piech’s top down authoritarian culture of intimidation.

This is just an example of the bad culture that Piech instituted and that was kept by his successors/flunkies. Give employees ridiculous targets to hit with regard to how to hit them and they’ll always break rules.

My first thought as well.

997.2 All day long over the 997.1 posted here by Tav. Hell, there are even CPO’s out there going for the same asking price as the car on ebay.

Right? I would have expected a car to punch straight through the roof and land inside someone’s bathroom. Something like this:

If you answer anything other than Lexus you are lying to yourself or actually blind. I was going to say Toyota, but only the Camry and Corolla make me want to vomit. The Forerunner looks bad ass and makes up for it.

P is for Passing.

My wife still won’t ride anyplace where anyone besides family knows us in my Focus ST. She also hates the Recaro seats.

Check out the ABC poster! Iesha!