Hydrogen fuel cells?

noise absorbing pavements ARE NOT a better solution. They fail prematurely.
You’d be lucky to get 10-12 years of of good traditional pavement. the sound absorbing garbage gets you 3-5 before it’s a moonscape. Then all you hear are truck tires pounding the potholes and crashing noises from panic avoidance lane changes…

it’s official: Audi has become the modern Buick.

why a golf for comparison and not a GTI? seems unfair

stop wasting time and money on that iron pig of a V8, put a mid-90's fuel injected 4.0L straight six in that thing and never look back. There’s BUCKETS of aftermarket support for that swap.

This worries me. They probably picked him due to the profitability of Ram and Jeep, which... probably has nothing to do with him. It’s a product of the moment and current trends. I don’t want that guy. That guy had an easy life. A soft life. I want the guy (or gal) who scraped their fingers to the bone clawing a…

what’s the point of Porsche spy photos, anyway? the 911 looks basically the same as it always has, the SUV thingies also all look the same, but just uglier. They’re as bad as Jeep Wrangers. “Oh look, there’s a new vent on the side!”

*takes deep breath from exasperation of constantly correcting this misconception*

Dark World was inspired by the Benny Hill / Scooby Doo sight gag where people run into one door in a hallway and then later run out a completely implausible door in the same hallway for comedic effect. 

it’s typical to design bridges at a ‘neutral’ temperature of 68* with a range down to -120F and up to 120F, depending on the region and owner’s design criteria. Actual steel temperatures can exceed those numbers when left to bake in the sun, and bridge foundations DO MOVE, particularly older movable bridges like this…

steel expands (or contracts) at a vert small rate, but for something like 100' long bridge, it’s possible to see 1" or more of change over the length of the beam. Also important to remember that steel temp is not the same as ambient temp. A black bridge girder sitting in the summer sun will burn you.  

the (older) A3 is a stretched GTI, and it’s a damn good one.

you sure it’s not a CX-5 or a Nissan Rouge?

I don’t know what to tell you, buddy.

have you driven one of these? There’s a reason that you see Mustangs crashing into crowds and not S4/S5's.

I’m going to disagree with you on that. I’ve got a 4 year old S4 with almost 70k miles on it and it’s been dead_stone_reliable. My wife has a 12 (twelve!) year old A3 with 160k miles on it and it’s been dead_stone-reliable. Like, more reliable than her former 1994 civic from back when Honda could make a car that…

I have an S4 of the b8.5 generation. it’s totally possible to put 200 miles a day on these cars and love every second of it. especially with the stick.

this is friggin easy: all you need to sell a wagon in the current environment is show how much easier it is to put bikes and kayaks on the roof of a wagon and you show how much easier it is for your dogs to get in and out of a lower sill door than it is for a Compact Utility Vomit.

Finally, a new Audi that doesn’t look like someone crapped out an erector set. I’d write a check right now for a stick 2.0T with AWD, but I guess we won’t be getting it here stateside(?)

Pot, meet kettle.