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is a big honkin' homo
I want a Volvo. This thread should be about Volvos.
Aaaaand to add insult to injury, apparently there is a recall on the new Jetta for having a defective Horn on some models.
FAIL.
The problem is that the same fuse is used for the horn and the antitheft system, Volkswagen told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
If there is an electrical short in the horn, Volkswagen said, it would blow the fuse, shutting off the engine management system. That would cause the engine to stall or might turn off the headlights or windshield wipers.
If a driver was ?using lights, wipers and then pushing the horn the fuse could blow,? said Sheriece Matias, a Volkswagen spokeswoman. But she said that would be ?an extremely rare combination of events.?
Laziness I'll get to it eventually.
And...it's a bit more than 14k
Why would anyone buy this?
Cheap plastic sells well in America but not lack of radio. You know what moms terrible PT Cruiser did well? Stereo. The base stereo on the PT Cruiser was better than the premium monsoon one in my bug, and blows the one in the outback so far out of the water is is ridiculous. Considering the radio is the only electronic thing that functions properly in my bug it would have been a lot smarter to put in cranks and leave the radio.
I've been asking that question ever since I was aware of American cars
Don't get me wrong, though. I also think, that the U.S. version of the Jetta looks awful but the U.S. market seems to demand this. Forget about this car-enthusiast's forum for a moment: Cheap plastic interior is successful in America. It's easy to clean, when your family spilled the contents of several McDonald's maxi menus over it and that obviously is, what the American customer wants.
Don't be so naive and think, that VW hasn't actually analysed the market, before they lauched their market offensive. And indirectly you are confirming this superficial philosophy with your comments: It doesn't seem to matter how the car drives and feels, if it is practical, has real build quality or saves fuel, as long as it looks good on the surface
There is only one thing, that will decide about success or failure of VW's attempt to win the US market: Sales figures. If they are bad, they did wrong. If they are good, reality proves them right. Let's wait and see.
The opinions in this forum, however, simply do not count, I'm afraid. We are a bunch of car nuts after all.
Having said that I doubt this batch will sell well. Radios and A/C have been givens in the U.S. for decades. Without those no one will buy it.
Yeah, because God forbid how many people drive at night in the rain! And might have to honk at someone!
That's why the base model VW is selling does have both a radio and A/C
Yes but for the price of that one you can buy a car that is reliable from another manufacturer.