My wife and I tried to approximate hers once using water displacement and assuming all of it was the density of fat. It was either a pound each or a pound combined (it was a few years ago) with C sized.

The primary reason for the B5.5 Passat flooding was sunroof drains getting plugged at the nipple in the A-pillar area. Leading to the annual "Fall is here, remember to squeeze your nipples" announcement.

One of my first thoughts was "Please someone put this into Gulf Livery for us." Thank you.

01 VW Passat 1.8T 5-spd came away with 11-20%- Better than I expected

They're concerned about women's ability to drive with a stick.

My all seasons served me just fine yesterday in the 2-4 inches we got. Beyond 6 inches I won't be driving regardless of tires. I had to pay extra attention, accelerating was slow, I had to downshift and brake earlier, and anticipate everything based off the conditions but I was never not in control. If I had snows…

I get bothered by the excessive warmer uppers. Obviously circulating fluids and warming up a little is what should be done. But often around here in Wisconsin, people will go outside to start their car, then go back inside and eat their breakfast in the morning or do about ten more minutes of work before leaving in…

From experience, I can vouch that an M3 fairs very poorly with summer tires. I took mine out for winter donuts with a 1/2" of snow and couldn't even get up to speed to do anything. It was slow motion drifting at 5 mph. It was more comical/pathetic than it was cool.

THIRD.... are they ONLY drunk driving related deaths? Seems kinda high. Also, state wide, or just Milwaukee County? I NEED TO KNOW."

I misread the headline and thought that there was going to be a rear wheel drive Mini Cooper with a 3-cylinder engine and got really excited. Then I read the article and was disappointed.

I agree, I tried to get through it but couldn't. I think it would have been ok if she was herself and they had human conversations like all the others but the fact she was in character (and the character was annoying as hell) ruined it for me. The charm of the conversations between real naturally funny people is…

Passat W8 Wagon 4Motion with a manual transmission, claimed to be under 100 in the US. I think the 1.8T with manual, wagon, 4Motion was rare as well.

This is a tough one to nail down because you do get that split.

Hybrid and electric vehicles. The argument is that a Tesla and Hellcat do the same amount of damage to a road but a Hellcat would use a lot of gas and thus pay a lot of gas tax for the road system, but the Tesla wouldn't be paying any gas tax.

The BMW X3. I really disliked it because it was both not a "true" BMW, and because I thought the small SUV was a stupid segment. My mom got one and we took it on a skiing trip- it fit a weeks worth of clothing and gear in back, snowboards and skis on the roof, and 4 people and a dog. It handled the snow well, was…

If you're idling, for the portion of the hill you will be using more gas than if you just take your foot of the gas (assuming fuel injection). You may however end up with more kinetic energy at the bottom of the hill which means you don't need to use as much gas immediately after.

That doesn't address my comment in any way. That article only looks at the time defined by the time from the top of the hill to the bottom. It doesn't address the immediate need to get back on the gas to maintain speed at the bottom of the hill. I agree with 100% of what the article states, it just doesn't continue…

Even if you leave the engine on and coast in neutral it can be more beneficial than leaving it in gear with your foot off the gas. When you leave it in gear, you're getting engine braking which is slowing you down or at least not taking full advantage of the potential energy. So by idling in neutral, you're using…

The ones that I get a kick out of are the ones that are egregiously wrong. There's a MkV Jetta I see regularly that has a crooked GTI badge on the grill. It's offensive on three levels- it's fake, it doesn't even belong on that body style, and it's crooked!

Adding to the list of chains to avoid 05.5-06 (?) VW 2.5 L engines. 90,000 miles, timing chain stretch.