But Jalops aren’t reasonable people. Because god forbid the minimum wage kid in detail has to spend 2 extra minutes removing a decal.

And in a universe of infinite probabilities... I didn’t have sex with that white woman.

The Cayenne is a decent looking SUV. Sorry. You’ll just have to deal with it.

lol. This idiotic argument as usual. The Cayenne shares the super basic unibody architecture with the VW, and the VR6 engine. That is literally it. I’m sure you think the Camaro and ATS are the same exact car too.

Well. When it has winter tires. And when it doesn’t have “Cayenne,” “Macan”, or “Panamera” on the rear of it. yeah.
Actually Boxsters and Caymans aren’t very good in the snow either. But they’re better than the Sedan and SUVs.

The Polo is a significantly smaller car. Which would explain the issue concerning the B-Pillar.
The Volvo if you watch has little rearward movement that is significant in the collision. Even in a head on collision it wouldn’t be that significant.

This is the biggest bit of bullshit I’ve read on this site.

I drove a rental in FL in the summer (I wager much hotter and humid too) and had absolutely no issue. Same in 100 degree weather in Atlanta.
I’m by no means a fan of the car. But I’m not going to find idiotic reasons to hate something. Especially considering I’ve driven two now that had the opposite issue you…

I think GM definitely aimed to get this to be the first case to set precedent for sure.
But the worst part is everyone else on Jalopnik is now suddenly experts of the US Legal System and in the past 12 hours got their law degrees. So they’re all the leading sources of course.

Completely disagree. I’ve done just fine with RWD cars in the snow and the right tires. I actually got around better than I did in my Xterra.

You don’t need FWD or 4WD, it helps in some cases. But definitely not all of them. It all comes down to the driver.

The Mazda based Escort (this one) actually wasn’t that bad. It was a fun little car to toss around.
I remember driving it and $3k is absolutely fucking absurd for it. I don’t care how clean it is. This is a $1500 car at most.

You mean a company devoting time to help squeeze out a little more efficiency so they can keep making things like this are “wasting time?” Well damn. I found the econobox driver.

Except auto start stop doesn’t operate unless the vehicle reaches a certain set of parameters. And one of those included is state of charge with the battery.

That’s really become blown out of proportion. It’s significantly reduced. When is the last time you’ve had a Direct Injection engine apart? Because I can tell you the last time I did. And it wasn’t because of carbon buildup on the valves.

When auto start/stop came out we were prepared. We thought we’d be changing starters like gangbusters. And all (unfortunately) under warranty.
But truth be told. In terms of being related to auto start/stop? I’ve done maybe a handful. If that.

Except it doesn’t do ANY of those things. And I work with the systems.
Gas mileage it changes more than you think. Even then, people spend more time in traffic than you think.

How long were you sitting? Did you just turn the car off?

They’ve solved these issues years ago and the oil system remains relatively pressurized. You’re not sitting for days at a time. You’re engine turns off for a few seconds, a minute at most. It’s not 1995 anymore. Technology has caught up.
The extra mechanical wear is minimal. I remember when the system came out I was…

I’d kind of disagree so much. If we got snow at that frequency we’d be way more used to it. What usually causes a lot of this is the first storm or two and people just aren’t prepared.
You can get around decent on all summers depending on the quality of them. In fact I see more vehicles with all seasons than “summer”…

I left Vienna at 6:30 and it was a disaster. I didn’t see any trucks in the 3-4 hours it took me to get home. 495 was understandably a disaster, but it went all the way up 270 past Gaithersburg. It was such a shit show.
But with all the hype about the snow storm tonight, the fact there was snow Wednesday just slipped…