The toxic tyrannical culture that killed Volkswagen

I didn't watch the video, but I do think that VW went down the tubes by lowering their reliability while increase the price of their cars.

It used to be that if you wanted a good quality car that didn't break the bank you bought a VW. Now you buy a Toyota or Honda, although the general economy means that some of us can no longer afford even the cheapest of the Toyotas or Hondas. It's weird how economics work.

 

Yep it's sad watching VW going downhill but it's not like they aren't responsible for it. I mean, who decided to replace as much as possible inside the engine compartment with plastics? Good grief! My son-in-law has a 2019 VW Jetta GLI with a 2.0l Turbo and I've helped him use my lift to do maintenance on it. Plastic oil pan and an insane rubberish drain plug that requires a special tool to unscrew it. (Or just grab an extra-large flathead screwdriver.) The thing takes only premium fuel which can really hurt when gas is $4.50 for unleaded and $5.30 for premium. It, also, takes a "special" motor oil and the VW dealer doesn't even sell it because it only buys in bulk and they told me VW Germany will only ship them like a minimum of 50 cases and they don't have any place to store it. (So my SIL uses Liquid Molly which is $50 for 5-qts...and, of course, the Jetta takes 6-quarts!)
He said all VW owners know they aren't long-lasting vehicles....about 5-years and 100,000 miles you'd better start looking to trade it in. It is a fast car, though....got her up to 102 on the expressway up to Denver with plenty of power left from that turbo.
But Toyota's in trouble with, yet, another 3rd recall on the V-6 engine....come on, Toyota, get your friggin act together!! NOBODY wanted Toyota to replace their V-6 and V-8's with turbo engines....will go down in history as another boneheaded mistake by Corporate beauracrats...
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haven' considered a vdumb since our 70's rust bucket rabbit

 

Computer simulated engineering. These parts are simulated to try to get some 200,000 miles or so out of them at the lowest price point possible. But computer simulations aren't always an accurate representation of reality. Some companies, like Toyota, put even more testing into their research and development making them tend to be more reliable.

But you've considered Toyuck-a, and now G-Muck.

 

yes, had pretty good luck with Toyuca-a over the last 20+ years, gen 3 excepted.

back to G-Muck because of hearing good things, and low price.

I will even consider vdumb again if they can entice me, but id4 won't do it.

 

Yep, my wife, already has her retirement car...her 24 Corolla AWD Hybrid....great little car! I'm, still, waiting to replace my 14 Tundra V-8 with a truck that can pull our camper....will need a good one when I'm retired and we visit places on our bucket list. The last thing I want to worry about is the V-6 in the Tundra blowing up on us so I've been looking at all the other makers of trucks and, to be honest, not very impressed. A similar Ford F-250 will run me over $70K but those engines AND transmissions aren't the best things.....very sad state of affairs for truck owners right now.