Was confused initially by this post, since that storm was Wednesday night (2 nights ago). The “blizzard” is starting now. Did you mean to post this yesterday?

My takeaway from this: State Farm had no qualms about insuring a car with a “odd” VIN, and taking the money to pay for said insurance. But as soon as it came time for them to pay out money, their immediate response is to rat the guy out to the Feds - Haha! we can’t pay to fix a car that you don’t have anymore. Sucker!

Anyone catch Mueller’s foot-in-the-mouth interview with NPR? Seems to me that they are still having issues answering these complex American questions, including how to submit proposals to CARB!

I read their response more along the lines of they requested a proposal, and the proposal failed to address a number of the important points that were requested.

In other words, Teslas have about the same reliability as any other high priced luxury sedan?

The entire idea behind a “stock” class used to be just this. As little as 15 years ago, still had folks with stock Dodge Neons with cages, seats, full interiors, and little else in engine/suspension mods drive from DC to Summit Point, race, then drive home. Look at SCCA’s roots, and that’s how the club started.…

I was really curious as to how stance worked. I was assuming that maybe the cars arrived by trailer to the general show area - you know, sort of like highly modified track cars do. Maybe they were on bags, and the stance was some mechanism of the lowering function.

I’m really curious - do these kids trailer the cars to Ocean City, then drive around? Are they on bags? Coilovers?

TDI Wagon owner here - I’m not mad. I’m more disappointed. Like if I learned my best friend had a Harley with straight-pipes stashed in his/her garage. I’m not going to stop being friends with them; rather, I’m left sad and numb.

I think the reflexes award goes to the driver of the little green bug that barely squirted out of the way (quite possibly causing the CRV to slam on it’s brakes and get hit side and back).

I personally wouldn’t buy it...

I bought my current car a year and a half ago with 92k on the clock and with no known maintenance history. 10k miles later, I’ve changed the oil once (that’s a nice shriveled prune of an oil filter), and borrowed the wheels from my wife’s car after the tires went bald.

Found one! http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/…

Seeing this made me realize that VW recreated this car during this century with the 4-motion Passat 1.8t that was offered in a manual-tranny (in very small numbers in the US.) There was even a wagon version (well, at least 1 that my neighbor had).

Anyone who says that 160hp is “not enough hp” doesn’t know how to drive.

The best part about a 780 as a first car is that if they break anything on it, they’ll get to live with the memory of that mistake forever since 99% of the trim pieces and body panels are unique to only that car and near impossible to find!

My last track day (ever). And yes, it was in that wagon.

Wait, nothing on how much VW’s suck in the comments yet? I’d better add that in before Jalopnik implodes:

Making a mental note that when the apocalypse comes, breaking the window of a Ford product has a decent chance of presenting me with keys inside.

Turns out that this car, in this trim (with the manual gearbox) isn’t really all that uncommon. At least up in the northeast where folks still like wagons and 3-pedals.