Thank God you don’t have to see your own vehicle when you’re driving it. That’d be the only silver lining owning this bottle of ipecac on wheels. Just get really good at averting your eyes coming and from the driver’s door and you might last the ownership period. Although you’ll have to get just as good at repeatedly…

That’s the whole damn crack house right there. And a couple dealers to boot.

Apparently, Kinja hates Volkswagens. I’ll try this again.

Even though it’s recently been discontinued, my vote goes for the VW 2.5 5 cylinder.It’s one of the few 5 cylinder powerplants that cashes the check written out for the refinement/power of a 6 with the fuel economy of a 4. If nothing else, it feels like it…

Even though it was recently discontinued, the Volkswagen 2.5 5 cylinder gets my vote. It’s one of the few 5 cylinder engines that actually sort of delivers on “power of a 6 (in terms of feel/refinement) and fuel economy (pretty close) of a 4.” Allow me to explain.

It actually gets pretty good fuel economy. I’ve easily…

My wife and I bought a 2014 VW Jetta Sportwagen 2.5 SE and are happy with it so far. The fact that there was over $4,000 on the hood didn’t hurt either. The best part, though? It really is an honest-to-goodness wagon. In fact, it reminds me of one of the first vehicles we ever owned together, even before we got…

First they came for the Volvo 240, and I did not speak out—

The only reason corporate grills are considered "necessary" is because automotive design is too copy-cat and derivative right now.