Your brain failed you right now.

Well, if you check the settings on your Android Hangouts app, there is a place to confirm your phone number. My GV number was already confirmed. If I had to guess, I'd say you will be able to choose a reply address (or phone number) for your SMS messages. That's what I am hoping for.

Does that mean you have to Ram the daughter... and the father?

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Raised compared to what? Although it looks like a Cadillac DTS, it actually is much larger. Everything is scaled up. I believe it's rumored to be built on a GM medium duty truck chassis. Like a 11/10ths DTS limo with odd proportions.

Ha, my cousin is named Blaze. Blaze Coyote (middle name). His mother droves a Prius though.

As someone who just got a fantastic deal on a 2006 Sport Combi, I have to agree. It is not a 32-35k car new, but it's a great car none the less. I was pleasantly surprised by the 5-speed auto (wife's car, easy guys), whose manual mode is about as manual as I have ever experienced in an auto, and the 220ftlbs at 2500…

Yes, it's on my short list for sure!

Yes, in fact only as a 5 door in the US.

I have a 95 SR w/ 190k on it. Other then aggressive 31" tires and some decent shocks, it is bone stock. The locker and tires make it fairly unstoppable, lacking only in ground clearance (which I will address when it needs new tires) . I have climbed out if muddy ravines I couldn't have walked out of and forded rivers…

As Petrolisti, we all wear an invisible, yet easily recognizable badge identifying ourselves as such. Self-bestowed, and earned through actions like choosing impractical, dangerous, cantankerous modes of personal transportation over more conventional, airbagged and crumplezoned ones, spending our dispensable income…

Too bad about the hideous wheels though.

Exactly what you said. I used this technique many times. The shadows and lighting match up everywhere, and the scale of the man in the car and the man standing bear the trucks door also matches. There is nothing "shop'ed" in this photo. Darkroom tricks were used to make the subjects pop a bit more.

It looks like that is where the exhaust is exiting. So probably is flames.

Right? And these new fangled 11spd rear cassettes? Fitting 11 cogs where used to be 8? Makes setting up your rear derailleur a pain in the ass.

I feel like I'm the only one who thinks these are awkward looking. A shooting brake might fix that, though. It's mostly the rear third of the car that ruins it for me.

So... I kinda of want one. But I'd like to see what it would do with out the electrics. Dropping the electric motor and batteries would make it considerably lighter. They claim 140MPG (or so I read) using the TDI only at the current 1750lbs. So if we kept the weight target the same and dropped the hybrid components,…

Ha, I take that back, it should be faster. MotorTrend got the 2010 to 60 in 5.8 secs, so I'd say 5.6-5.7 is a safe guess. 

People. People. Calm down. The stated 0-60 is the manufacturer's claim. They almost always sandbag. Seems to be especially common with the Germans. Mark my words, with a DSG the car should be in the 5.7-5.8 range.