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VW recalling 340,000 vehicles in the U.S. {Autoblog}
Oct 1st 2007 1:16PM Ahhh, the usual VW bashers have come out of the woodworks! Where where you when Toyota had their floor mat recall?? C'mon, they can't even get the mats right???
Oh, that's right, everyone knows someone that has a VW that has had some catastrophic defect! If that were the case, you'd see more VWs than Toyotas on the road.
Oh, and it's not due to poor German Engineering, it's a problem with the assembly line. You want to take shots at poor engineering or shitty assembly...may i suggest yo take a look at the formerly "Big Three". Now that is crap!
How SUVs screwed up the idea of hybrids {Autoblog Green}
Sep 27th 2007 2:56PM Paul, you are doing it again!! How is aluminum more environmentally unfriendly than steel??? Now I'm convinced that you really don't know what you are talking about! I'm not going to try and lecture you about physics or mechanics - as this will certainly go over your head - but let me explain one thing to you. The consumption of a vehicle is in a large part related to it's weight . There are numerous areas manufacturers can reduce losses, such as the engine and transmission as well as reducing vehicle load requirements. These however, are greater challenges with actual physical limitations - ie a powertrain's efficiency can only be increase limitedly. Weight, on the other hand can, in theory, be reduced unlimitedly. By using diecast aluminum or magnesium parts, a car's weight can be significantly reduced. These are not expensive parts, like you think! Besides, your A3 is a poster boy wrt. using light weight materials. What do you think the frame is made of? Steel? Diecast and extruded aluminum components that are welded together! This is just one simple example of what's in your car...there's plenty more. Designing towards a certain price point, while disregarding good engineering is the typical NA way of doing business. I'm surprised you are driving an Audi. I don't think their philosophy fits yours!
One of the fundamental flaws of NA designed vehicles is that they are not designed with as many of these light weight materials as they should until they discover that the vehicle is going to get too heavy. Then they begin the re-engineering work to see where they can use aluminum or magnesium.
Wipe your feet: Toyota recalls 55,000 floor mats {Autoblog}
Sep 26th 2007 3:52PM Guys, stop taking pot-shots at Toyota owner!! These are simple cars for very simple people. Shit happens!
Spy shots: Facelifted BMW 3-series {Autoblog}
Sep 26th 2007 3:47PM Who cares about the look...did I hear diesel twin-turbo???????? Oh yeah!!!
Wipe your feet: Toyota recalls 55,000 floor mats {Autoblog}
Sep 26th 2007 2:53PM You mean to tell me that it wasn't the soft drink bottle, or the plastic utensils, or the many napkins, or the empty pizza box that caused me to crash into the take-out intercom at my local drive-thru?? Phew!!
Wait a second, I don't drive a Toyota!
Automakers to face $2B class-action for Canadian price discrepancies {Autoblog}
Sep 26th 2007 2:21PM I'm all for lower car prices here in C, but a class-action lawsuit seems a bit over the top. Does anyone know which manufacturers were imposing the "no export" clauses and which penalized dealers. I know Audi can't be one of them because I explored this avenue last year and spoke to a US dealership as well as Audi Canada about this. There was no problem from Audi's perspective. The US dealer did say that my future Canadian dealer might not be very curtius because I didn't buy it from them.
Porsche announced that they will be dropping their prices around 5-8%. So someone is starting!
BREAKING - Alonso to Ferrari for $40 MIL {Autoblog}
Sep 26th 2007 12:28PM As much as I love the rumor mill, I agree that this is piss poor journalism! You guys should take a note from the guys at Pitpass. These guys are good! Generally, Autoblog is alright, but occasionally you guys really suck at this journalism stuff. I guess that's to be expected form amateurs.
How SUVs screwed up the idea of hybrids {Autoblog Green}
Sep 26th 2007 11:45AM Paul, Paul, Paul, you crack me up - in a retarded kind of way! Your simplistic view that saving fuel is saving fuel - irrespective of the actual quantity shows your ignorance. So, using your flawed logic, it would be a great improvement if a car went from 10mpg to 15mpg!!! I mean, that's a 50% increase in efficiency!! That's huge!!!! Let's get that pig!
You know who's laughing at idiots like you - well besides myself - the manufacturers!! They have figured out a way to further fool people in thinking that SUVs are GOOD! All that the manufacturers have done is kept their gas guzzlers, slapped in an electric motor and TA DA...you got yourself a Green SUV! Now you can park in the Hybrid parking spot at Ikea!!! Sure it has a better fuel economy than before, but seriously, it's still nothing to brag about. A marginal improvement on garbage still gives garbage. The manufacturers' best tool is to throw out increased efficiency numbers in terms of %. Why? Because the vast amount of people don't really understand what percentage means! They just see a number and bigger means better. To go from 1mpg to 2mpg....WOW, that 100% increase!!!! I'll take it!! The bottom line is that the SUVs used to get piss-poor mileage, now they get poor mileage...but according to your logic, that's an improvement, so that's good. HAHAHA
Baby on Bimmer: BMW Sauber F1 child seat {Autoblog}
Sep 25th 2007 1:14PM Oh, and it'll put you back a bit more that 50 bucks!
http://www.racingspirit.ee/pics/brands/BMW%20Sauber%20cataloque%2007.pdf?sess=0bf33b1b2d2c0cdca5da1d74f569d45a
Baby on Bimmer: BMW Sauber F1 child seat {Autoblog}
Sep 25th 2007 1:05PM Believe me, this is the farthest thing from your 50 buck Graco car seat!!! This puppy is most likely made by the only company that knows how to make proper car seats...Recaro!!
