Also rarer than hen’s teeth.
Also rarer than hen’s teeth.
Indy-Guy said:If they have a Supercharged version, I know what my next car will be (in 15 years after they hit the bottom of the depreciation curve)
Avail 380 HP Supercharged v6.
Cars.com shows 11 unsold, locally.
Just showed the pics to my wife. Her response ‘Aww, do you have a bonner now?’
damn that woman knows me.
In reply to Slippery :
I bought our Passat wagon at Gunther a long time ago. They were better to deal with.
Wow, so a self-confessed Luddite who apparently doesn't use his turn signals has problems with a car that has some electronic nannies (like most modern cars do). What a surprise. This guy writes like he doesn't know how to drive and will welcome our new robot overlords. He was definitely driving a car that is nothing like the one I just bought.
I, too, have had my car a week. I figured out how to adjust most of the E36 M3 he's complaining about within 8 hours of taking delivery. If the author can't be bothered to change the settings, he is being completely unreasonable to expect the car to change its behavior.
Literally the only thing about that review I even remotely agree with is that I wish the roofline was flatter in back for a little more cargo space. I noted that in the Wagon Appreciation thread. But there is still plenty of room back there for a cooler and many bags of groceries. Or golf clubs. Or a stroller and diaper bag. Or anything else short of a 2-month airlift-size warehouse club run.
Some random observations on his comments:
Beef 1) Neither of our cars, in 2 years, has ever slammed on the brakes when backing onto our busy street, let alone taken itself out of gear. We live on a cut-through neighborhood street and traffic is near constant during typical hours. The cross-traffic alert will bong to warn you of cars, and it's never been particularly overactive. Unless you habitually open up a space by backing directly out into traffic, I call BS. Besides, if you don't like it, it is easily (and permanently) adjustable or totally defeatable with 1 swipe and 2 taps on the touch screen. And any time you shift into reverse, you can turn it off with one tap, directly from the rearview camera screen, which is automatically activated as soon as the shift lever hits R.
Beef 2A) He says he had to fight with the wheel to change lanes when the lane keeping system was on. Well, DUH, that's what it's for, dumbass. But guess what? If you bother to signal your lane changes, it seamlessly and transparently defeats the system while you make the lane change, then seamlessly and transparently brings it back into play once you're in the new lane. And, again, it can be turned off with a swipe and 2 taps (or, directly from the steering wheel controls).
Beef 2B) He complains about the car slamming on the brakes when he changed into another lane to avoid a lane closure. It is not unreasonable to assume that the new lane had slowed or stopped traffic due to the lane closure itself... so it is not unreasonable to assume that the car was doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is use the adaptive cruise to avoid or mitigate a potential collision. Again, with a click of the cruise control settings - right from the steering wheel - he could have set the following distance tolerance at any time without even taking his eyes off the road. I'm sure on a press car that was set to the maximum safety cushion.
If you can't spend 2 minutes to learn about the controls setup and make adjustments, you forfeit your right to bitch about how it is set. Your failure to learn about the settings and adjust them does not mean the system has "buggy active safety features".
Beef 3) What? The car doesn't decelerate when you take your foot off the gas? Yes, it does, it just doesn't throw you forward when you lift... It's a modern car with an 8-speed transmission - 8th gear is pretty tall. This is no different from any other modern transmission. Sorry it doesn't behave like a 3 speed from 30 years ago. Learn to brake without stomping the pedal. Oh, and if you can't do that, you can actually adjust the braking response if you care to bother. Somehow his bad driving technique translates into "dubious handling"?! Are you berking kidding me? My nephew and I were just hustling my 1000-mile, 1-week-old V60 around some seriously 3-dimensional back roads at real speed - him within 5 minutes of getting in the car for the first time. It soaked up everything from rough paving to off-camber, cresting turns with total aplomb.
That 'review' is, in short, utter Jalopnik crap.
[edit] I posted some rebuttals, even without any profanity. I bet a dozen donuts that they are never allowed to see the light of day by the editorial approval team.
Bwahahahah - 18 hours later and there are dozens of new posts on that thread, but somehow all the rebuttals and factual corrections everyone has made are still "pending" and you have to make about 3 clicks to see them. Stay classy, Jalopnik's integrity.
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