Why is going fast stupid? Car manufacturers spend a shitload of time, money and brains engineering cars to be safe at speed - they're certainly capable. Have you ever driven a car from the 50's at freeway speeds? Now THAT is irresponsible; bench seat, decapitator steering wheel, no seat belts, no safety glass, covered…

VW will never overtake GM and especially Toyota if they don't address the fundamental issue of reliability. I love their cars but reliability has been crap for decades and it hasn't improved nearly enough.

Lol! It looks like someone found a vector car drawing tutorial on the web and was like "Yeah, I could design a plate."

This is no doubt reckless and irresponsible on the part of the driver (whether or not he was racing, he still killed four people speeding), but I can't help but think the mother is at least partly to blame for this.

Maybe it's so if you're on the side of the road and you open up the "boot" you'll have some form of reflector for the sake of safety.

A logical step for VW. They already have standardized the failure of every electrical component in the car within 5 years of purchase.

The mandated separation from producer of goods from selling directly to customers through company stores needs to end. In more areas than just automobiles as well.

If we could just get rid of government mandated middlemen for cars and for alcohol sales, the world, or at least my world would be so much better. The…

Of course this happened in Staten Italy. Can we give that whole landfill to Jersey yet?

The "banded" road tax doesn't apply to vehicles built before Jan2001, they get a flat rate tax so I doubt it will have much effect on vintage cars.

Not having a proper manual transmission is a cardinal sin. I love everything else about the car. Except the headlights.

I guess they are not making enough money from the cars that are illegally registered there, but live in NYC.

There's tons of shoddy ones out there.. but I have a particular aversion to these - usually spotted on rusted clapped out Neons..

I wonder if the days of franchise dealerships are numbered.

I completely understand the philosophy of limiting vertical monopoly in the automotive industry, but I think that we can allow for better practices here. It's arguable that manufacturers could offer better products more cheaply and respond to the market…

If you bypass the dealer, the consumer is left without a convenient source for Teflon paint sealant, fabric and leather protectant, undercoating, window-tinting, spoilers, extended warranty, specialty floormats, VIN-etched windows, pinstripes, special edition badging, credit insurance, market value adjustments, and…

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Nigel Tufnel: The gears all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

Electric torque is great, they just need to keep making progress on the battery side, but it's happening. Once they lighten the battery packs and increase the range (this is on the horizon), these little cars will be loads of fun. The only way to get there, is to build them now and keep making progress...

How about instead of mandating people stop being distracted we start working more towards the inevitable autonomous vehicle that will at the least free us from being dangerous on the interstate. I love the act of driving at least as much as you, but I know this is something we need for true progress. It's coming and I…