I personally will be pushing myself to swing an all-cash purchase at this point. I drive a Jetta currently. If the buyback returns anything close to pre-scandal market value, plus a couple grand of hush money and my cash budget for a new ride will be around $6-8k without really dipping into any other funding besides…

*Car shopping intensifies*

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I wonder if the special plate allows for a tinted windshield.

“My wheels are wet but the footwells are bone dry! Everything’s coming up Milhouse!”

Neutral: If Ford Doesn’t Want To Make Electric Cars, What Should It Make?

Around here, most people default to 1-hour meetings scheduled on the hour and tailor their meeting content to fill that time. It makes it more difficult to pad appointments in this environment, but I often schedule half-hour blocks for myself earlier in the day if I need time to work or prepare for meetings.

From 5000k to 2700k is ‘slightly’ warmer?

From 5000k to 2700k is ‘slightly’ warmer?

...But it has an option to buy it now for $28,900...

I prefer cost per mile, as it is a better and more intuitive indicator (to me) of the cost of the vehicle. I remember that cost every time I drive anywhere I didn’t need to.

They are those things you put on your water bill because the damn water department can’t be bothered to create an online payment system.

They for sure have side and rear lightbars.

In my ‘13 DSG I drive about 90% highway and make 39 MPG real-world. I’ve done some road trips where we hit 42 but its quite difficult to hit the EPA numbers with the automatic Jetta in my experience. Far from the “you’ll be getting over 50 on the regs” spiel the dealers used to give.

MPG is such a backwards measurement as it is; we are quantifying fuel consumption per unit distance (what we really want to know) with a unit showing distance per unit of fuel. The standard measurement of L/100km is a much better measure and we should use that. That way, differences could be quantified logically.

That poor guy in the white Corolla is going to think of this every time he wants Panera now.

Everyone should just use LEDs from now on. The technology is sufficiently mature to replace (and outperform) all the old tech today, including HID.

And I can’t even get the local dealer to re-lamp my Jetta correctly. They literally installed the headlamp crooked (you can see it inside the housing), then basically called me a liar when I said the beam pattern is all wrong.

Yes, the classic 900s were a different transmission. The engine was mounted longitudinally with the transmission being chain driven from the front, and all the belts conveniently located at the firewall where there is approximately 2 inches of space to get to them...

The (manual) transmissions are notorious for being made of glass, too... I owned 3 c900's over the years and they all had some form of transmission woes.

You see, if you drove a Tesla you wouldn’t have any gears...