Whose balls do I have to fondle to get out of the grays on the FP? I’ve been here since 2010, got starred by Wert, and now I’m grayed out because of a throw-away comment?

A manual trans doesn’t add that much value to a Cherokee, as the AW4 auto is a very good transmission. That being said, the AX-15 is the one you want.

Given the choice, you would buy one that wasn’t previously molested.

Don’t mind me just testing something.

I’d rather fix my own fuck-ups rather than pay and then fix someone else’s fuck-ups.

Can I get out of the grays? I didn’t realize being cheeky would get me grayed out...

The first hand-painted Lamborghini was the 350 GTV, mostly because it was the first Lamborghini, and it was fucking painted by hand.

I know someone.

‘15 Golf R DSG

I still disagree, and would like to point out that I was incorrect - I should have stated VW would never market a VW product as being faster and cheaper than an Audi product. VAG will not sell something that, on paper, can beat a more expensive and similarly aligned Audi product. GM does it with Cadillac as well. I am…

So now we’re trying to determine what the “vast majority of car shoppers don’t care about”, even though the vast majority of car shoppers wouldn’t even purchase a GTI or Golf R or S3 or RS3? Of course some idiot on the street doesn’t know the different between the M3 and 340i, or 328i, or 320i. BMW isn’t marketing the…

I would not call that within the margin of error, as the results are taken from the best of three runs for each vehicle (IIRC my C&D test methods), and these are measurements, not calculations.

The RS3 is not a more powerful version of the S3, it’s a distinct model. That would be like saying the M3 is a more powerful version of the 340i.

Good for you - Evo was able to get a Golf R to beat an RS3 around a track. This would be interesting if it were an S3 they compared the Golf R to, but it’s not.

Car and Driver has an S3 DSG hitting 60mph just before the Golf R DSG does, and clipping the 1/4 mile 0.3 seconds and 2mph faster than the Golf R. VAG will not sell a VW that is faster on paper than a competing Audi for less money. The performance numbers are close enough that driver error would wipe out the advantage…

The world in which R&T and C&D instrumented test results put the S3 faster than the Golf R.

Audi is not missing out on A3 sales because of the GTI. Also while the Golf R is probably a good buy when compared to the S3 in terms of performance, the S3 is still faster than the Golf R. Again, VAG is not going to let ze people’s car outperform their luxury offerings.

It was never alive to begin with. No reasonable person would believe VAG was going to sell a VW product that could out-perform an equivalent Audi for less money.

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