It wasn’t able to downshift with the flappy paddles. If you floored the gas pedal and hit the kickdown switch, it could probably skip a few gears at a time.

I would argue this doesn’t compete with the M3/S4 as much as it may seem on the surface. Toyota/Lexus kind of operate in their own market for people who want a more premium product, but prioritize reliability over bleeding-edge performance and technology. This seems to be more of a car for people who wanted a faster…

VWs have never been known for being exactly reliable but this is the WORST era of VW. My mother in law had a Jetta TDI. It barely ran and was in the shop constantly.

Those tires and wheels are a choice. One that makes me doubt all of the other choices current owner has made (the ones regarding this vehicle being most significant).

$1000 more represents a <2.5% price increase. Considering all the inflationary pressures around the world, how is this at all surprising?

The C30 was pretty flawed, somehow managing to be both impractical and get bad gas mileage. Sure, the latter was shared with its S40 and V50 counterparts, but the form factor was just a bit too compromised.

The PT Cruiser, it is a perfect fit for the market, it just got done wrong and was allowed to soldier on way past its freshness date. We had a first year GT in the family and it was a fun yet highly practical little runabout, if only they had evolved it instead of de-evolving it. It could be an EV and be aimed as a…

You misspelled “Brat”!

“Visually awkward looking” is Subaru’s heritage. But by now, after a couple of generations, the looks would have been mainstreamed.

BMW and Lexus have proven to me that weird/giant grilles will sell no matter what, so clearly now is the time for Edsel to shine again.

What’s worse is,the Supreme Court aided and abetted this crap with Whren and Heien which basically said the cops can be completely wrong about the law and still keep illegally obtained evidence and claim qualified immunity.  Fortunately for Mr. Rosales the evidence of false testimony is sufficient to overcome…

We need a zero tolerance policy.

Neutral: Not related to battery production, but I actually think this the genius of the Mach-E and whatever the Corvette equivalent of that is going to be. There’s a large class of middle-american doofus that is always going to look at an EV as some kind of goofy foreign thing. Forcing an EV to breed with the most…

A dealership getting you laid. That is the unassailable #1 best experience and cannot be topped.

I have posted this before:

According to that site, my A4 is 2% American, and TBH that’s more than I’m comfortable with....

Thanks.

Here’s the list for people who don’t like clicking a bunch of times:

I love the info and enthusiasm of Doug DeMuro, but damn he’s annoying. 5 min and I’m done, which is a shame because his deep dives into older models is the kind of car nerdery that I love.

Probably a special version of the blue oval.