Our Passat goes back on Monday. We then drive to a nearby Mazda dealer to pick up a loaded CPO 6.

Yep, I am the highest bidder :)

I would have still purchased a VW in the future, but not after this debacle.

In reality, the gearing on my 6MT feels more like a 5 with 2 different overdrives. 5th for city overdrive, 6th for highway overdrive. When I reach highway speeds I just skip straight into 6.

Exactly, There is no fix. There won’t be either and people holding out for one are going to be disappointed.

UPDATE: 1:18 PM: Tim Bradshaw, one of the reporters behind the FT’s initial story, says that the paper is sticking with its initial reporting:

Surely you’re joking? A Toyota Camry has 15.4 cubic feet of cargo space. A Toyota Highlander, a vehicle built on the same platform as the Camry, has 42 cubic feet behind the second row, and when the second row is not carrying passengers you have 84 cubic feet of space.

It's not even close. I think you're not comparing…

They’re exceptionally large hatchbacks. That’s a lot better than a regular trunk.

Well, more than likely they can't fix the cars. Not the pre-urea injected ones anyway, which is the majority of the cars in the recall. But yeah, as others have said the buyout and compensation are probably to ensure they don't get reamed by class action suits any more than they have to. They're probably bargaining on…

A lot of fat demonization.

2nd gear: We’re doing exactly that; we own two 2014 TDI Sportwagens and waiting to see what the deal will be from VW. I’m not sure what we’ll do yet but I know we won’t be using our current dealer for service in the future - they are the slowest service department on the planet. I could be talked into a GTI or R for…

Gosh, even the Bug has a certain Germanic seriousness about it. I really don’t think of it as a “fun” car like a Fiat 500 or a Mini.

Apparently VW is going to make an announcement on June 21 about the US fix. As a TDI owner, I’m interpreting that to mean they’ll tell us what the fix is (repair, settlement, buy back, whatever) and then it will be another 3-6 months before anything actually happens.

I remember the good ol’ days when if you crashed you just blamed Pastor Maldonado. Now things are so complicated...

A big part of the decline in sedan sale has to be attributable to lower gas prices. That said, the Malibu, for instance, gets 27/37, at it’s most efficient trim, while, say, the Equinox gets a still-pretty-good 22/32. So people, my family included, have determined they can make the move to larger, roomier, more…