VW has offered automated parking systems for years, but not in the USA. The Passat B7 - the first one you didn’t get due to the NMS - was one of the cars that got them. As did the Touran, Golf VI, Golf Plus, etc

I’ll throw a 2011 Skoda Superb Estate with the 2.0 TDI 170 hp engine for approximately $11.904 from eBay Motors UK in the ring. Having driven its identically-engined small cousin, a 2009 Octavia RS TDI Estate, occasionally for the past five years, and taken a seat in the Superb Estate more than once, I can only…

Wrong, you still have it. The Passat NMS may not really be related to its European sibling, but it’s still called Passat and fits into that segment.

Hey Máté, the previous generation with the naturally aspirated engine was not the first generation, but the third generation (Clio III). Could you please correct that last sentence above the embedded video?

No, that’s an Impala, not a Monte Carlo. Don’t worry, everyone has a bad day every now and then. ;)

Trolltastic article, Doug. Greetings from Krautland.

Indeed, especially before important details like a ground-breaking interior style are revealed.

You forgot something about the Shooting Brake: the absence of a B-Pillar, just like on a Coupé!

I stand corrected. Neither the tank nor the Flak gun nor the torpedo they seized were demilitarized. German source: http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/sc…

Speaking of the General Lee theme: this one took 2nd place last year in a design competition of Germany’s largest independent BMW dealer.

The bigger issue are probably the automatic transmissions of cars built in the USA for US roads. Notable examples include the Ford Windstar and Opel Sintra, which were US Minivans sold in Germany. Usually, by the time they hit 60k to 100k miles, their automatic transmissions were toast because they overheated at the…

This man’s cellar is a multilevel underground car park with an access ramp. He also happens to have a personal bunker. The authorities seized the tank because the owner couldn’t produce a letter from a federal minister stating that he was allowed to own it. The second reason for seizing it was because authorities…

The wrecked RS6 and the old tram? ;)

Nope, the LPG-powered Titus Viper is just a modified road car. It’s slow as hell.

No, that’s simply incorrect. The trunk died with the late 1990’s GT1s, with Toyota famously homologating the empty fuel tank of the TS020 GT-One as the trunk.

The Chinese SUV market is gigantic, so it makes sense to produce it where it’s demanded by the market.

The Sport Quattro S1 (E2) looked and sounded spectacular, but ultimately, it was a failure, only winning a single WRC event. It had a lot of weight ahead of the front axle and behind the rear axle, resulting in rather dodgy inertia properties while driving. Essentially, this car was a point and shoot weapon for rally…

Why is this not #1? It scored about 1500 victories during its career.

Even when it’s fully loaded, this tank built on a 24 year old platform (the W140 S-Class) won’t impress anybody anymore today. I’d probably even take the underpowered S300 Bluetec Hybrid over a Maybach 62 - having driven the Hybrid slouch on Friday the week before last week during a motor show for “intelligent”…

I think that the following modification should be carried out at Flugplatz - also in light of the ROWE Racing Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 that jumped over the tire wall during 2014's VLN pre-season tests following a spin going into the Flugplatz turn.