Posted on 02/08/2017 4:48:39 AM PST by Kaslin
I didn’t watch any of the halftime show...my team was getting smoked, so I went out on the deck to smoke a cigar and get some of that chilly air to clear my head.
All the commercials were generally awful, but I did get a good laugh out of the Melissa McCarthy ones where she plays the part of the environmentalist weenie!
I especially liked the grin on the face of the guy with the chainsaw...:)
They are all part of the same overall group and share engines and tech.
The A-3 uses a version of the Golf diesel that was what started the problem. But the are also buying back the 3 liter TDI that was in the Q5 and Q7 as well as available in the Porshe Cayenne and VW Tourage. None of the fixes that proposed were accepted by the feds.
Guys seem to think their cars say something or represent something about themselves personally.
It is not new. They used to do the same thing with flashy horses and high perch phaeton carriages.
I think Audi is German for “A hole to throw money in”.
I was looking at a used Audi but I could get a Mercedes AWD for the same price.
Audi entry level Audi A3 sells for around $35k, mostly up from there. Main direct competitors would be Mercedes CLA and BMW 228 or the slightly larger and slower BMW 320 and Acura ILX.
The main religions (depending on the area) in Germany are Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%, Mormon 1.7%
There are some in the younger generations that have been brainwashed about American automobiles. They grew up in the 80s when US automakers couldn’t meet the pollution mandates and instead, made a lot of crap cars. Hearing us complain, they decided to buy the new foreign brands and they still think that way now that they are in their 40s.
I asked a friend I was visiting in California, “do you guys allow any foreign dealerships to sell cars here — Like, say, Ford?’
I’m driving a 2003 Infiniti sedan now, The quality is amazing for a 14 year old car. It’s darn near bulletproof. My Jeep GC is a piece of crap and I need to unload it but I need an SUV to get up the mountain. The JGC is unstoppable in the snow.
I honestly thought about a Infinti M35x but it won’t do as well as the Jeep. Maybe an Infiniti EX35. There just isn’t an American car that fits the “small” SUV mold except maybe an Escape.
Yesterday or the day before it was reported that research was done that shows Audi has ZERO women in top management overseas — and only two in the U.S.
They’re hypocrites much like Hillary, talking the talk but not walking the walk.
"Do I tell that her grandpa is worth more than her grandma?
"That her dad is worth more than her mom?
"Do I tell her that despite her education, her drive, her skills, her intelligence, she will automatically be valued as less than every man she ever meets?
"Or maybe ... I'll be able to tell her something different."
I saw that stupid commercial and I thought he should tell her that her daddy's rich and has a massive amount of White Privilege and so his precious little snowflake will never have to worry about the financial concerns that affect "those people".
I was looking at a used Audi (not really) but I could get a NEW VW Jetta for half the price. So I did.
Since I moved out here to the Phoenix valley, I am driving a base model Nissan Xterra with 2 wheel drive. Out here clearance and ladder frame are more important than 4 wheel drive. For snow and traction I have KO2s by BF Goodrich which will go through snow like a snowmobile. Xterra is no longer made and I don’t think they have that great a reputation but I have a dealer that I use that takes extra care because I spend a lot of time detailing it.
Xterras have a lot of 4 wheel drive models but they are only about 19 mpg on the highway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVOPPg7rZ_s
A bit of Britt (caution: mild profanity). A millennial with humor and common sense.
My problem is a 90 degree turn before my house. It’s straight up a mountain, good incline. You need 4wd because you may have to stop and restart on the incline if some knucklehead had his Jetta in the middle of the road. Momentum is not always guaranteed.
My Subaru sedan would lose the back end after the curve. The Explorer would go in a direction of its own choosing. The Jeep just powers through.
Best car for it: A 1998 Thunderbird with chains. It can pass the snow plow.
I had a place like that for 13 years. It was a big circle with only one road out. Looked like the shape of a handled magnifying glass. The road out was straight uphill and in KC it used to ice under the snow because it faced east.
I broke down and put studded snow times on wheels reserved for them and put five of those tubes of sand in the back end over those tires. The rear wheel drive van I had there for many years wouldn’t go up that hill without it.
One of the things we are seeing now is many SUVs (4 wheel drive or not) have low aspect ration tires.
Old Audis in the 70s always had 80 aspect ration tires as I recall. The low aspect ratio tires dry corner very well but are crappy in snow.
I would look at dedicated snow tires for your vehicle if it is otherwise sound. The KO2s I have, while not dedicated snow tires, are Alpine rated with the Snow/Mountain symbol. Unlike snow tires, they are high speed rated and should last about 50k.
spell check decided to change “ratio” to ration.
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