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Even Before Toyota, VW Knew All About Winter Woes
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Martin Schwoerer
(IC: employee)
Published: February 4th, 2010
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TTAC has reported on VW’s plans to become the global number one. Looking at Toyota’s current quality problems, one could be excused for thinking that there just might be some substance to Wolfsburg’s plans. After all, Toyota’s days of glory seem to be over, while VW is on a roll, with sales growing and quality improving. Right?
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- Analoggrotto Does anyone seriously listen to this?
- Thomas Same here....but keep in mind that EVs are already much more efficient than ICE vehicles. They need to catch up in all the other areas you mentioned.
- Analoggrotto It's great to see TTAC kicking up the best for their #1 corporate sponsor. Keep up the good work guys.
- John66ny Title about self driving cars, linked podcast about headlight restoration. Some relationship?
- Jeff JMII--If I did not get my Maverick my next choice was a Santa Cruz. They are different but then they are both compact pickups the only real compact pickups on the market. I am glad to hear that the Santa Cruz will have knobs and buttons on it for 2025 it would be good if they offered a hybrid as well. When I looked at both trucks it was less about brand loyalty and more about price, size, and features. I have owned 2 gm made trucks in the past and liked both but gm does not make a true compact truck and neither does Ram, Toyota, or Nissan. The Maverick was the only Ford product that I wanted. If I wanted a larger truck I would have kept either my 99 S-10 extended cab with a 2.2 I-4 5 speed or my 08 Isuzu I-370 4 x 4 with the 3.7 I-5, tow package, heated leather seats, and other niceties and it road like a luxury vehicle. I believe the demand is there for other manufacturers to make compact pickups. The proposed hybrid Toyota Stout would be a great truck. Subaru has experience making small trucks and they could make a very competitive compact truck and Subaru has a great all wheel drive system. Chevy has a great compact pickup offered in South America called the Montana which gm could make in North America and offered in the US and Canada. Ram has a great little compact truck offered in South America as well. Compact trucks are a great vehicle for those who want an open bed for hauling but what a smaller more affordable efficient practical vehicle.
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Well, I was planning on replacing my 2000 Crown Vic with a Golf. Time to rethink. My CV sits outdoors all year north of Toronto, where -20 provokes some comments, but where life goes on. It always starts. 265,000k, and it's needed a battery replacement, spark plug replacement, brake pad replacement, a few front suspension bits, new shocks, and that naughty plastic intake manifold replacement--a few weeks out of warranty--for which I had to pay. Reliable, safe as a house, cheap to fix, tons of room, a highway masterpiece. Forget the Golf, I'm a gonna find another CV--maybe a used OPP unmarked cruiser--for a few thousand dollars and drive it for another ten years. My wife will be furious. The old-man image copper-wannabe has to share a driveway with her nervous, revy, buzzy but hip Accord. It seems that North American auto makers actually test their cars in Canadian winters. Europe, on the other hand, is getting back into colder winters after a warmish honeymoon of a few decades. But all this is moot. With the coming economic armageddon just getting started, even mighty Volkswagen might be producing only emergency shelters and riot-control trucks in a few years.
head over to vwvortex.com this is a well documented thing from back when the MK5 first started to roll out. everyone that i knew with the issue, went to the dealer and had it covered no questions asked. and vw has since released a redesigned fender liner ro something that doesnt allow water to get trapped. old news. the whole "your stupid if you buy a vw cause they break" thing is really really old.