There’s an increasing trend on NP/ND to say that “SOMEONE will pay for it, so I say Nice Price.” I don’t think we’re all voting with common definitions. Having spent enough time on BaT it seems to me that ,for any vehicle ever made, running or not, SOMEONE will likely pay for it, just because there’s always someone…

We’d make bank. We’d be the Citroen of the galaxy, the only ones making 2CVs, and since the galaxy is pretty, pretty big there’d always be SOMEENTITY that wants one. And then I would expect the BringASpaceTug site to quickly go nuts and entities will be paying three times as much as necessary for an ICE auto, just to…

It’s really a good car, and it’s the best car I’m willing to park on the street where I live. 70k miles and the only thing gone wrong was a tiny leak in the coolant reservoir that lost pressure and set off the caution alarm. Of course I’ve jinxed myself now! And it probably saved my life a few weeks ago when a car…

“The before times.” :(

So, similarly, if you’re asking this question you’re probably a person who won’t understand the answer, or at least to whom the answer is unimportant.

YOU THINK I’M GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE JUST BECAUSE IT SAYS SO IN A MANUAL? WHAT ABOUT “PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY” HMMM? #FREEDOM

For this kind of money, with or without VAT, VW better stop sticking “R”s on cars that have simply upgraded their wheels. I have a MK VII R and I’m more than a little bitter to have paid for a well designed sports machine when others that are merely “ racing-inspired” also have the letter applied to the grill.

Huntsville is home to the Army’s Redstone Arsenal, which includes the Army Materiel Command, Army’s Aviation and Missile Command, the Missile Defense Agency of the Department of Defense, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Those are the activities that actually buy things so the vendors are next door

You are KILLING it here on Jalopnik, Mercedes! Keep it UP!

Run over. Crushed. Killed.

Point taken, they were never safe. Which is why highway fatalities of the time were relatively horrific. I submit that on today’s roads, with today’s traffic density and today’s SUVs/CUVs, Minivans, and proliferating pick-ups they are even LESS safe. In 1962 the average other vehicle wasn’t especially quicker to…

It’s the Moose and Squirrel test!

I see what you’re saying about using the phone as an interface but, as in so many cases, I WANT A KNOB!

I have a feeling that there was a shift from 948 to 1098 in the middle of the 62 MY. I often drove the 1275 Midget between North Carolina and New Jersey about 30 years ago and am convinced that none of these cars are safe for today’s major roadways. I’d bet 0-60 times are something like 15+ seconds and traffic flow…

Exactly right. The 62 Sprite featured FIFTY FIVE horsepower from its 948 engine when new. I don’t know where you drive but that is not survivable on any highway where I live: you will be run over, crushed, and killed. I drove a 72 Midget with the 1275 engine and, while I have fond memories of it, would never, ever…

Exactly.

This is an entirely new car with an entirely new drivetrain that shares no components with past systems. I’m just too old and know far too much about chaos theory to give overmuch deference to “predictions.” If a publication doesn’t have enough data to reach a conclusion it should state that. Anything else is little…

Then you report that you don’t have enough data to issue a recommendation and leave it at that.

I’m sure this is a statistic-related math thing I don’t understand, but I’m not sure I buy downgrading a company based on “predicted reliability.” Just because other companies have had problems in the past means that Porche is predicted to have problems in the future? As if they haven’t learned anything from those…

The manual to my Golf R was like 300 pages long and I didn’t get 20 pages into it. I’m sure I’m missing something but I just don’t care enough to find out what it is.