US Government, please let them implement a fix before you gut the company and run it out of the country.

Sincerely, someone who doesn’t want to have to pay for whatever modifications are necessary to remain legal.

As a “car guy” I disagree with all of these....

The moment comes when you no longer look forward to a drive.

All the “cool guys” from HS in my small town drive these POS 10/15 year old lifted HD Diesel trucks and blow coal everywhere. They sometimes take them in the mud, to show off. They generally all work in factories or doing hard labor (there’s nothing wrong with either BTW).

Generally, they all wear Monster hats, and FOX…

People who ask others for advice are often just looking for someone to blame if it goes wrong.

The whole system they use is flawed. When both “my iPhone takes a couple minutes to connect via bluetooth” and “the torque converter became a bingo roller” are equally weighted as a reliability defect, I lose faith in the accuracy of their report.

I seriously hate the amount of weight CR puts on infotainment and the ‘nice to have’ electronics. Just like you said 99% of the readers are going to look for what’s going to last 10 years +. I’m also skeptical of them saying that the VW brand is ranked 13th, while the Audi brand is ranked so high. These are also the…

...and aa portion of them believe it unequivocally.

As a rule of thumb, I never ever side with journalists when they complain about how they’re treated, when trespassing and trying to steal private information about a very high profile tech company’s developments... as if they even had a right to be where they were.

“If there were ever a World Championship for Things People Think Used to Be Better, Acura would finish in second place. America would, of course, take the top spot.”

disclaimer: I own a 2014 TDi Passat with 6M and I have averaged 52.1 MPG over the last 37k miles. those 37k miles were done in just 1 year.

Not sure if 4 mpg is a “plummet.”

That’s a smoke signal for “I need a dick punch.”

Short box f150 with a cap = closest thing well see to this bronco

I watched this last night and came to the conclusion these guys barely know what they are doing.

Shomegrown on VWVortex was able to explain in greater detail why these results are largely incomplete and therefore meaningless.

I guess I was primed by the “nazis” comment, but at first glance, I though it said “a citizen of Poland.”

The real crime here is that we keep throwing gate at the end of every controversy. Lets find a new suffix to abuse for four decades.

The fact that horsepower and other performance numbers aren’t available in the press release without going to the “more detailed specs” page...but info about infotainment and wheel colors is....makes me want to not live on this planet anymore. FWIW, power is up on the S. 2.0L making 189HP/207lb-ft.

The amount of NOx damage caused by VW is incredibly minimal in the grand scheme of things. 80% of NOx in the USA is caused by fertilizer and soil management. Only 5% of NOx comes from transportation (Which includes trucking, farming equipment, trains, planes and automobiles). Of that 5%, under 1% of that…