A month ago, in much lower windspeeds, It was 6:30 to and 8:15 back for me.
Meanwhile the flights from London to the US were traveling at a ground speed rivaling a 2CV
More fun is the Lincoln MKZ with the 400hp 3.0T
She’s in Ipswich, MA. Get the Volvo like your neighbors.
With Ohio you have to read between the lines. What this really celebrates:
All it’s depriving us of is 30 year old Ford Explorers, which would have rotted out by now anyways. No one was mothballing those.
They would honor it on the GLI, but they told me to kick rocks on anything but the most basic of GTIs.
Hard agree on the ‘interesting’ dealer experience for VW. I have a corporate discount with them, and as soon as that came out, they basically did everything they could to show me the door. Sure they would get their end of the $ from the deal, but they couldn’t glom over the MSRP. Oh well. I recognized that,…
Be careful, if you get too Canadian it’ll start running through the Geneva checklist on its competitors.
Meanwhile British Airways flying on Christmas this year: “How much wine would you like with your dinner?”
Especially when it’s free at Costco.
The other trick many are resorting to is taking a “down payment” off of the sale price.
1997 - $700 for the hand-me-down from the ‘rents to share with my sibling. A 1989 Mercury Sable GS.
You’re reading into it to draw the inference that you need marketshare to make a manual. One has nothing to do with the other. Where’d you go to business school? Get your money back.
That entire argument is consumer preference. Packaging is determined by consumer preference. Niche products work fine so long as people buy them, Subaru proved that for decades. What keeps manuals is that people buy them, not that you sell 14M other cars from your portfolio.
Let’s not act like VAG doesn’t have vehicles in the US that use the EA888 2.0T, its just that only one gets a manual across all of the brands using some form of the engine. Safe to say over 50% of VAG US sales include a variant of the EA888.
For sure. I went the other way and got a car I could enjoy for life and my commute and begrudgingly accepted that it would be an automatic. For the first time in my 20 year professional career, I am not driving a manual to work.
I had looked at the GLI and the Integra and realized I didn’t like either enough to deal with and the only attraction I had to them was they were manuals.
The bravest design in the history of excellent automotive choices, the NMCC.