You people always want government small enough to not cost you a damned thing but big enough to use against someone else.

Not mentioned: The C63's gas guzzler tax.

Especially in the stitched brown with the woven aluminum dash.

In America, the A3 is not a hatchback, it’s a sedan/saloon. Only exception is the A3 e-tron, which remains hatchback-0nly.

VW is the bargain brand in that corporate umbrella. (USA, at least.)

Both of those look better than all the Mercedes models with the goddamned transmission shifter on the steering wheel stalk.

If you’ve tried to buy an RS, then you know you should be adding $5-10k to that price.

That’s the standard/basic Cruise feature on all versions. The “Driver Assistance Pack” ($3100USD) includes “Adaptive Cruise with Queue Assist” thusly:

How do we feel about the shifter being on the steering column stalk? I liked this vehicle until I saw that “feature” and it just turned me off. I thought that idea had passed along with the 1980s. Maybe I’m overreacting.

I’d have its babies.

Europe doesn’t suffer under Volkswagen of America, either.

You’ve nailed why I don’t own a Golf R — the GTI is so much better looking across the board. The R, it’s not a sleeper, it’s just base model. Yick.

I just sat in a base TT on Friday. My gimpy right shoulder made me notice this first thing: There’s no goddamned center armrest in it.

ZERO seatbelts are designed to save you when you hit a tree sideways at over 90 mph.

2002s are relative death traps, too, as pretty as they are.

Wake me when there’s an Abarth version of this car. They’re obviously saving the sound for it.

I loved the concept car and I’m surprised they’re producing it. Shit, stick a manual in there and I’ll order one. Why the hell not.

Except those look like shit.

If they had offered the original Marina Blue on the ND, I’d have been first in line.

If you don’t wilt when you see that Eagle Speedster, then you’re not human.