I’ve owned two of these. I fucking love them. Most comfortable car I’ve ever driven, despite the diesel clatter at idle, it’s supremely quiet on the highway. The Audi virtual steering axis suspension makes for virtually zero torque steer, but a somewhat numb steering feel. It’s not the most efficient 4 cyl TDI, though.

Former car salescritter here, eventually became an F&I guy, sales manager, and GSM. What follows should be considered well-informed opinion...

All true, and airlines are just one of the most extreme and awful examples. The truth is that this kind of concentration has happened in loads of other industries over the last few decades. It’s why your ISP sucks and your mobile provider sucks and your health insurance sucks and...I could go on.

I’m pretty sure that’s a Faraday Future, dude.

They’re calling it ‘mobility’ and ‘car sharing’ (cause the sharing economy is so hot right now - oh wait, was so hot a while ago...), but really what they’re saying is that they’ll be a provider of fleet vehicles. That’s smart in the sense that they can get their foot in the door without having to establish a dealer…

I have a hard time believing that the actuaries are intentionally adjusting their data to change the premiums in minority neighborhoods. Could there be something in the actuarial models that does not show up in the profile Consumer Reports and Pro Publica are using? there is racism in America.

When you import one, get the 3.2 petrol-engined model, if they haven’t all rusted out. The diesels are hideously unreliable and, whilst surprisingly good to drive, will shove a red hot poker firmly up your ass at some point. If you must get a diesel pick the 2.4, rather than the 1.9 which has ruined various…

Tesla Model S, I can’t even find the damn thing!

Inb4 a swarm of Audi nominations. I’ll just throw the 4.2 timing chain clusterfuck out there.

Engine: a Honda engine.

the engine will only last 31,000 miles.

it is a Power Ranger. Bye I will see myself out

So many window regulators.... smells like crayons

“... hit a set of spike strips going 115 MPH, subsequently barreled off of the road and into a drainage ditch, launched the truck into the air and landed on a car parked at a restaurant” 

Cost.

Keep a few idle air control valves and idle control units in the glove box like you would do with fuses in a normal car. You’ll be fine. Also, that air inlet hose, no matter how good it looks, loves to crack on the bottom and create mysterious intermittent issues.

Can I add more facts to the marketing literature to be flipped through by billionaire’s car buying assistant?

They’re apparently not Tesla Experts, nor are they Audi A6 Avant, Mercedes E-Class wagon, Land Rover Discovery, or Almost Every Extended Cab Pickup Ever Made Experts in terms of identifying unusual rear seating configurations. I wonder what they would think if they saw me loading my kids into the minivan’s third row…

Why hello there