6'5" - I second this. It’s not that there isn’t height in any of the Golf family, it’s that the GTI’s bolsters are really hard and difficult to get in and out when you’re swinging a lot of legs over them constantly. It’s suspension is also better for smooth German roads, not any you’ll find here.

Wholeheartedly disagree - AC3 was when most the controls and UI for modern games started, it had a much more interesting story and characters (not to mention the 1st act twist of playing as a Templar) and set up plenty of future games. I look forward to this far more than playing any longer as that whiny idiot Ezio.

In the B9 A4/A5 the cubby left of the steering wheel is large enough for it, but it’s narrow, deep, and so dark it’s hard to see that at first glance. In the VWs, other than the cavernous door pockets, there’s nowhere inside the cabin big enough for it, except maybe in the Atlas.

B9 A4 and A5 on the Audi side. The all Golfs and Tiguan on the VW side.

By re-reading I meant more about how to operate the basic functions of a car like the shifter, doors, windshield wipers, and such. You aren’t reading the same literal book again, but you can easily skip over large swaths of the 2nd because of the similarity of controls described in the 1st

In some cars (*cough* VW, Audi *cough*) the manual doesn’t actually fit in the glovebox.

Do you know have a full understanding of how your phone or internet service works? We live in an era where so much technology is ubiquitous and market requirements, trends, and regulations have forced compliance and common understanding of how things work in 98% of situations. You can drive a Kia in most everyday…

Why would you not keep it in your glovebox?

In the SF Bay Area, the easiest way to tell if there’s a cop behind you is if they’re driving an American car. Aside from the big-ass exhaust Challengers and Chargers, I’d say 8 times out of 10 any American make is an undercover cop. Everyone else drives Japanese (the cheap cars) or German (the kinda rich people). The…

Those are some huge freaking walnuts. They look like tennis balls

We all want U.S. manufacturing and American jobs and American production, but we never seem willing to pay the extra cost—and companies aren’t willing to cut into profit margins to make it happen.

For me, it boils down to championing new-age tech ideas, like ride-hailing, bike-sharing, fucking scooters as a solution for public transportation failures. Time and again, ever since Uber barged into the room but probably before that, Silicon Valley has trotted out some form of the argument that so-called…

Counterpoint: if you can’t fit everything in a trunk as large as the Miata’s, you simply have too much stuff.

Why do the old car companies insist on still putting a grille on their electric cars? The success of Tesla and Nissan Leaf have shown that people don’t miss it. This is like humanity’s vestigial tail; it’s a pointless leftover of something not needed anymore.

I just saw an 87 AX for sale in great condition

You’ll be looking totally normally-sized in a slightly wide, taller, and longer Golf SportWagen. A Tiguan badge may magically appear on your vehicle.

Higher speeds, within reason, can be a good thing for saving time, but not when everyone is going a far different speed than other cars around them. That turns into some kind of war with cars, where the faster ones shoot by either side of the slower ones, darting in and out of lanes without a second thought.

I appreciate that very specific reference. A star for you.

Minor semantic correction - the average of a range of measurements isn’t necessarily the middle of that range; that’s the median. You could have 24 people with $1 and 1 person with a $200,000 and the average per person would be $8,000.

To me the point of a hot hatch has always been 1) having a fun, fast, tossable car and 2) extremely easy to park in most places and 3) better usage of cargo space than a sedan