Recent Comments:
Updates on Audi: A1 coming, Tokyo concept, A8/Bentley diet {Autoblog}
Sep 18th 2007 8:11PM Seriously, the guy is called Michael Dick? I bet he doesn't like it when you shorten his name to Mick.
All about Audi: Every 2008 US model and alteration {Autoblog}
Jul 19th 2007 3:54AM I've always wondered about these people who claim they have loads of problems with their cars. Maybe I'm lucky, but I've owned many cars from many makes, used, new, and never had a serious problem with any of them (even an M.G., Citroen, and a Saturn)
I think this comes down to the driver. Some people just shred their cars because they can't actually drive very well. Ever been in a friends two year old car and wondered why everything rattles, why there's wierd grumbling noises coming from odd places? Then whitnessed him/her set off from a stop light, and instantly get the picture? They dump the clutch, pound the breaks, use the wrong gears, etc.
Get in a 2007 Toyota Camry taxi and tell me it doesn't feel like it's ten years old.
Dealers should refuse to sell to certain people. Sounds like the first commenter is one of these.
My Audi is near perfect, no problems at all. Only unscheduled dealer visit was because I ran it dry and had to have the engine light reset. Gets 38 mpg on the highway too (because I daren't speed with five points and the cops loving ticketing the Auidi driver and all that).
Glad I didn't pay $4,000 or so for the S-line option last year though. I'd be gutted now.
Europe considering ban of cars capable of more than 101 mph {Autoblog}
Jun 7th 2007 8:17PM Well done Chris, the publicity you get from this will guarantee your salary for the near future. Now, go away again please.
New York Auto Show: Honda rocks the box with Element SC prototype {Autoblog}
Apr 13th 2006 3:27PM Is that some sort of Tartan surrounding the shifter? "Och aye the noo! there's a gear knob stickin' oot me sporan!"
World premiere: Audi TT Coupe {Autoblog}
Apr 6th 2006 3:36PM Wah! Is that a three foot tall silver fairy unvailing it? Is that a huge TT-shaped cake? Man, car launches are a festival of the absurd. I wish I'd been there to really take in the "narrative".
First BMW Z4 and M Coupes roll off the line in Spartanburg {Autoblog}
Apr 5th 2006 9:21PM Now all I've got to so is wait eight years before they come into my price range. So in 2,920 days, I'll be stylin! But I'll probably crash, and Busta Rymes will leap out of the bushes to take the piss out of me and disresepct my lady. Or the hippies will have bought them all before me and I'll have to spend 5 grand removing the vegetable oil modifications. Or worse, the teenagers will have got to them and I won't be able to buy one that's not been booted and lowered (have you tried to buy an early-nineties three series recently? Nothing standard out there.)
In the Autoblog Driveway: 2003 VW Jetta SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) {Autoblog}
Apr 4th 2006 8:53PM Sorry, I didn't close my argument. By driving these cars, don't be fooled, you are still releasing CO2, you are still giving kids asthma, you are still the problem. In the short term it's better to keep this oil as waste, ship it to a landfill and let it release its carbon slowly away from urban streets and places where people have to actually breath. Does that mean you turn back to using fossil fuel? No, just stop driving and you'll keep your hippy creds intact. If you can't do this, then please shut up and stop telling everyone that you've found the answer.
In the Autoblog Driveway: 2003 VW Jetta SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) {Autoblog}
Apr 4th 2006 8:34PM Carbon-neutral is so missleading. Obviously burning alternative fuels can be described as carbon-neutral. But follow this train of thought and every chemical reaction that has ever happened is neutral as long as it uses elements that were found on earth. Burning vegetable oil should never be described as carbon-neutral. In order to protect the environment, that carbon needs to be kept in a solid state and not released as CO2. To describe this hippy crap as carbon-neutral is therefore a flat-out lie, but I'm sure it sounds cool to your friends over dinner at your yurt.
Volkswagen launches new Polo GTI {Autoblog}
Apr 4th 2006 8:20PM Glad you brought up ageing hippies. I live at ground-zero for our Jerry-worshipping, soap-dodging friends (The Upper Haight, SF). Here are my observations:
Ageing hippies that have made some money, yet still dress like guitar-techs tend to live in Marin, yet come down to the Haight on weekends. They absolutely always drive either a late-model Corvette, or a Ford F-150.
Those who came in the sixties, hung around, and still live in the same two-thousand square-foot, $200/month rent-controlled apartment, always drive delapidated Volvos that spew out god-knows-how many polutants, yet still have Save the Earth stickers on them. These self-rightous assholes are currently trying to get all street parking banned, safe in the knowlege that they have nice garages to store their wrecks in.
Then their are a gang of "free spirits" who live in the neighborhood in converted school buses and decrepid Winabegos. They pay nothing in taxes, yet use all our social services, and still demand a payout.
Not forgetting the software-engineer ageing geek hippy in his Prius, the weekend boomers visiting the Haight to recreate the summer of love and parking in my driveway in their brand new Explorers and Yukons, and my favorites, the Harley-riding clowns who race around the streets setting all the car alarms off on a Sunday afternoon.
As soon as I can get a Bentley and drive around with a One Less Hippy sticker on it, the better.
Crazy Enzo crash guy loses another whip {Autoblog}
Mar 29th 2006 10:45PM Yes, well obviously if GM could make a supercharged 5,439-cc 24-valve 90°V-8 engine giving out 617 hp, and drop it into a carbon fiber coupe with scissor-opening doors, then maybe the Fat Sweed's wife wouldn't have to resort to illegally importing her cars from Europe, would she?
