As much fun as it is to accelerate, I think having a car that is fun in the corners provides more enjoyment. My old, beat up Subaru Legacy Wagon that I bought as a winter car ended up getting driven 98% of the time because, even though it was as slow as a snail, it felt wonderful in the corners. It felt responsive and…

It seems so silly, but it is a real thing. Knowing that you have such an unusually nice example of a car makes it very difficult to be the one to start putting the wear on it. If you can manage to do it, good for you! I just couldn’t seem to enjoy it as much as I would have wished. I think that part of it had to do…

Great, so now when the Mrs. turns the heat far passed all known human numbers and into the “high” setting, with the blower at an equivalently insane “high” setting, I will sit there melting into a pile of human guts and sadness, unable to control my own side.

Yes and no. Shoving your way through a crowd as something terrible unfolds is normal self preservation. Taking 15 seconds to step over an elderly gentleman who was just thrown across a bus about 20 seconds after the carnage has stopped is 100% selfishness. She had to stop, look at the man, and think about how to get…

I like the way you think

Someone may have opened the door for you, maybe a fiend or a valet. A good example could be a mini-van with sliding doors. The first thing I touch on most of them is the interior handle. So in this case, depending on how quickly the car changes to a dog, I have at least a hand stuck in the poor little fella. Now if a…

That is what I thought you meant. Yeah, I’ve been there. Unfortunately for me, it was on a car very prone to failing wiper assemblies as it is: A GM W-body. I’d be a liar if I said I haven’t accidentally done it a few times since then, too.

Are you saying that putting the wipers up will damage the mechanism? Or that putting them up not only saves the blades from freezing to the windshield, but prevents the mechanism from being damaged when trying to unstick them?

Do you have control over whether or not touching the dog or car changes them? If not I see a much bigger issue than not being able to pet dogs.

Ah, you see, but you could turn a car into a dog, and then pet that dog. The car-gone-dog cannot be transformed to a car-gone-dog-gone-car. You may have to part with your beloved pup, but he could be replaced! That is all providing you don’t simply have control over when the power works and when it doesn’t.

If the first tattoo does indeed go on your back, then you are right that this is a no brainer. If, however, there is a chance that it appears on my forehead first, I may reconsider.

That would be so terrible that I think I might actually be OK with it.

This is what I thought

They should just find a way to sell us basically the same car as before, exept with whatever stupid new regulations are necessary. MAYBE, just maybe it wouldn’t be too hard, and they could reuse existing tooling, keep development costs down, and then of course sell it super cheap so jalops would be willing to buy it.

I made the mistake of buying an ultra-low mileage car in 2014. My first car was a 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP, the supercharged one. I love that car and regretted selling it, so I spent a couple years searching for a really nice one. I ended up finding a 2000 GTP Daytona (1 of 2000 made, if it matters to you) with…

Yeah, I’ll take the risk to MAYBE have to replace the springs in 10 years versus having the blades ice to the windshield and almost certainly damage the blades every time. This could be completely coincidental, but since I’ve started putting them up before freezes, it SEEMS that they have lasted longer. It could be in…

This is all I could think of while looking at his comment

Except that a janitor is not equivalent to management at corporate VW, but rather a lowly PR rep.

I would guess that a rubbing compound of some sort-maybe even some basic scratch remover- could remove the pink. Who cares if it eats through the clear coat, it will take at least a few months for the paint to stop being shiny from over buffing, and by then the car will be in the hands of VW

The thing is, I don’t think that most of the people who are buying CUVs need any of that space. People seem to have it in their heads that they need something to haul big, heavy things and be capable of going off road, when in reality, hardly anyone does any of that. Add in the feeling of being “safer” because people…