See: every Jalopnik article on people going underwater buying cars on 96-month loans.

The Car. Was Parked. For A Reason.

Mk VII Golf R - it’s lovely. I have the car in my pic for weekends but I spend my weekdays in terrible traffic=DSG. First time I pulled out on a highway with “Sport” selected with a truck coming up behind me (immediately thinking “Really? You couldn’t have waited FOUR seconds?”) and felt the transmission going “BamBamB…

Not new. German Focke-Wulf 190, about 1943. Seen even earlier on Messerschmit 109s.

I bet the concept was something like “Let’s compare the Trailhawk to both a sports car and and all wheel drive car and show how it’s better than both.” Except then they stuffed the execution of the concept.

brb gotta lose an hour googling Michèle Mouton videos

Disbelieving in Cd to own the libs.

They could do both in house production and partnerships, just as Microsoft does with Surface and a few other hardware items. Elon could build expensive top-end halo cars, more slowly but at high margins, while each of those cars adds cachet to lower priced cars built by his partners.

Here’s the Dow since 2008. Smoothed out, it’s virtually a straight line since the recession. Nothing is happening now that wasn’t already happening.

Found the DASCateer!

Wait, what?

Yep, they’ve been airdropped. USMC 3d Recon rig:

Here’s today’s equivalent: The USMC MRZR (Em’-Razor). Built by Polaris, used by Special Operations Forces as well. USMC had them converted to diesel because “heavy fuels” are much safer for shipboard ops. Don’t know whether any of them have been air dropped, but they fit inside an MV-22, which is more useful to the…

A guy getting (lightly) ribbed and then apologizing before correcting us is the most Canadian thing I can imagine

I’m older than that and I daily a Golf R. Tuesday I late braked a Corvette (who had already been chirping tires randomly on a 35 mph road) into the turn to an onramp and planted myself in his side mirror for a couple hundred yards, until it was time to neck down into one lane.

Terribly sorry for you, my sympathies.

I just came here to compliment Kristen on her astonishing POSTURE!

I had one when I was stationed at a military base overseas. Rusted out floor boards, previous owner spray-painted “DEATH BUS” on the side. A blast to have. BUT, no one ever told me about aircooled engines and oil - I let it run down and seize. :(

Thing Number 6: women we love own Volkswagen Type 2s. And drive them.

I...I kinda REALLY want to buy something from a company that wants women driving sports sedans and men driving minivans...