Category: Cars
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Car buying is annoying.
Recently, the lease on my trusty Passat ran out. I tried hard to get another VW, but it didn’t pan out. There’s no 2011 Passat (new for 2012), couldn’t get to the payment I wanted on a Jetta Sportwagen, and I wasn’t very excited by the new Jetta sedan (not up to snuff if you’re…
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VW Eco Performance CC Concept
Interesting, VW is making pondering a new performance version of the CC (via). The enhancement is via a new 3 stage turbo that lets you dial in your fuel economy versus performance; nifty idea. On the low end, Eco Mode gives you 222Hp at 33/27 MPG. On the high end, Full Power Mode, gets you…
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Bugatti Veyron at top speed on Top Gear
Some interesting video of the Top Gear guys running a Bugatti Veyron all the way up to its maximum speed of 253 mph. Interesting facts: To safely get up to the top speed they needed a straightaway of 5.5 miles. At top speed, the tire lifetime is only 15 minutes. No matter on the short…
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Videos of the Day, VW Style
A bunch of fun videos regarding VWs this week: VW vs. Toyota Soccer Top Gear rocks. See the I-Go vs. the Fox. V-Dubsrock Part 1 Hehe. “This amplifier has airbags…” With Nigel Tufnel from This Is Spinal Tap. V-Dubsrock Part 2 Sweet. Can’t have rock and roll with out Slash. V-Dubsrock is their new promotion…
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Case Dismissed
Phew! Had my court date for that tinted window and license plate cover violation yesterday. After waiting about an hour for my turn to come up it was pretty much a non-event. The judge asked me what I had done about the offending modifications. I said they’d both been removed. He handed me off to…
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Operation: Unpimp My Ride, Day 2
Figured it was probably better to get legal faster than worrying about some glue stuck to my window. So, last night, I detinted the front passenger window. This one was a little harder to get started, because the tint was still pretty well affixed at the top of the window (the other window was peeling…
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Operation: Unpimp My Ride
Recently, my 8 year string of good luck came to an end and I got a ticket for illegal tint on my front windows. It was one of those traffic safety checkpoints. I thought I’d be OK (as I’m pretty sure I’ve been through them before), but when they stopped the car in front of…
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VW ‘Safe Happens’ Commercials Work
USA Today reports (via) that the VW Safe Happens commercials (see my related post) are really paying off: Requests for brochures up 37% at call centers Requests for brochures up 56% on their website Requests for dealer quotes are up 58% I tend to agree with the quote in the article that the commercials are…
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The Rabbit is Coming Back…
VW recently announced (via) that they’re bringing back the Rabbit name for the car currently known as Golf. I’m looking to economize a bit in my next set of wheels, and enjoyed my previous Golf so much I might give another one a shot. Update- volksbloggin also says that the upcoming generation of Golf/Rabbit isn’t…
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Bizarre VW Jetta Commercial
Even weirder than the freaky gti commercials (who are done by the same ad agency as the burger king ‘king’ series; like this), I caught this commercial hilighting jetta safety. Wow, really gets your attention. Update– turns out there’s another commercial in that series. Same idea, different folks in the car.