[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST jut FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

[Red Badger]

KnOcK!....................

[Yo-Yo]

Volkswagen's problem is that they're priced too high. As the article points out, the price differential between a Volkswagen and an Audi is minor, but the prestige of the Audi is much higher than the VW.

Cut $8K off the Golf sticker and VW will have a winner.

[Paladin2]

Add an all-wheel-drive manual trans option and I’d bite again. My 2 2005 TDI agons are getting long in the tooth.

[Gay State Conservative]

The price of diesel is a disgrace.It's noticeably cheaper to refine than is Regular yet for much of the year is higher than Premium.In just about every other civilized part of the world (including Canada) it's as cheap,if not cheaper,than Regular.

[SunkenCiv]

VW has a pricing problem, IMHO; in addition, they try to push unionization down the throats of US workers. OTOH, sometimes it’s a horse/water/won’tdrink thing.

Volkswagen XL1 Gets 261-MPG, is NOT a Concept Car
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2013/03/volkswagen-xl1-gets-261-mpg-is-not-a-concept-car-2013-geneva-motor-show.html

[doorgunner69]

You could pay me to drive an Audi or VW. I know I would end up broken down somewhere.

[Born to Conserve]

I hate diesels. They stink, they’re noisy, and the strange people who own them love to leave them running. Ambulance crews pull up to food vendors and sit with the engine running, ruining everyone else’s meal. Armored cars fill supermarkets with stench. Every dump truck in the nation seems to belch lung scarring soot. Diesel wreaks before and after it is burned. But the worst thing is how diesel owners go on and on about how perfectly wonderful they are.

[AlaskaErik]

The biggest problem VW has is that its cars are almost totally devoid of any technology. When I was looking for a road car last year my list of must-haves included adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert. The VW Passat has none of these. Its competitors have most, if not all of these features. My 2015 Hyundai Sonata has all that and so much more, for thousands less than the top of the line Passat sells for. VW might have a nice engine in the TDI, but the rest of the car is 10 years behind the times and is way overpriced.

[AdaGray]

The re-designed Audi A3 may be as good or better than the A3 hatchback, but it is bound to fail because it is an ugly, boring looking little car. I paid $44,000 for my A3 hatchback in 20012 and would gladly pay that or more again for the new ‘Sportback’ which Audi had promised to bring back to the US in the Summer of 2015. I am, however, beginning to doubt they will bring it back. They have too many boring little redesigned A3s on their hands that no one wants and they have no way to dump that inventory.

[Squeako]

I was thinking of trading my 2.5L 5-cylinder Passsat for a TDI, but now I’m not sure because of reliability reviews due to EPA/CA regs...the 2.5 maybe be underpowered but it’s pretty smooth and bulletproof.

[MediaMole]

FWIW, I just went on VW’s official site, and you can get a basic Golf TDI Sportwagen for $24,595, which is a lot less than the quoted $29k.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

VW’s are too expensive. Also the only one I ever owned was a lemon, so I’m a bit biased. Don’t think I’d buy another one.