So the Mercedes CPO program doesn’t even bother looking at active recalls? This makes me wonder if they actually look at anything as part of their certification process.

It is from a 413, for sure, and the stampings say 1960. It isn’t mine, so that is all I can really say. I guess it could be from on of those Max Wedge special versions of the 413.

This looks like something I caught deep sea fishing one time

Dear Mr. Feinberg,

Someday that idiot in the truck will run into someone who will shoot back. Perhaps showing this video to the police resulting in a conviction and removal of his weapon would save this idiot’s life.

Clean Diesel. Environmentally friendly and economical.

If you read the court documents in the linked article, it is a dealer in Chicago and a dealer in West Palm Beach who filed suit.

The Napleton in Florida in the suit is a small older dealership. The entire place is on maybe a 300 x 300 foot plot that is also a Hyundai dealer. The buildings are old, the selection of cars is tiny, and last time I was there it was very much a 4-square/giant inflatable gorilla type dealer. Their sales suck because…

Why didn’t Ballaban use his time to educate the American public that what they really want are brown diesel station wagons with manual transmissions?

Sure, fuel economy was a factor in the purchase, as was the federal tax incentives at the time for the TDI. The other wagons available that would work for our family were higher end European wagons that offered better performance/luxury, but worse mileage and a much higher price. I should say that we like the TDI. It…

My other car is a mazda. The TDI is my wife’s vehicle. Please tell me the name of the low cost, non AWD Japanese station wagon that was on sale in the US in 2009. Yes, it had to be a wagon cargo area bigger than most hatchbacks, and it couldn’t be an SUV or crossover with a high step up to the passenger compartment.

As an owner of a 2010 TDI wagon, I expect the end result of this process to be an offer that falls short of making owners of affected vehicles whole. I’m guessing they are bringing in a legal team to mitigate their liability, show they are making good faith efforts to the fed/state/courts, all while spending the least…

The Offenhauser four is a beautiful engine.

I had a 1980 VW rabbit with really bad rust issues. Sure the wheel wells were rusted out, and there were small holes in the floorboards, but the biggest issue was the time I pushed down on the clutch pedal and the entire pedal box assembly detached from the rusted through firewall.

I own a 2010 TDI jetta wagon. It is my wife’s daily driver. We really like the car, and it has given us 90,000 trouble free miles while producing excellent fuel economy. It has been a very solid family car. We were more interested in the great mileage and reliability of diesel than the environmental ‘green’ aspect of…

Oregon’s original state constitution contains a very specific “whites only” clause, which if one follows the logic of the VW note, both the note writer and recipient are filthy racists.

Improper display of a firearm in Florida is a class A misdemeanor, and is considered to be a pretty much automatic 1 year in prison and a fine. In all the CCW classes here they make sure you are aware of ‘brandishing/improper display’ laws. If you do this as part of an additional criminal act it can lead to that other…

I used to have an International Harvester truck.

I was carded at Gamestop buying Battlefield4. I get that it is corporate policy and all that, but I am a 45 year old man with gray hair and a full beard. Not only am I old enough to purchase Battlefield4, I am also old enough to have served in the first Iraq war.

Exactly. This is why the US fields mechanized infantry in strykers or M2’s that can dismount and clear out enemy infantry that may have anti-tank rockets. A tank operating without infantry support is incredibly vulnerable on the battlefield.