Terrible Photo of Pre-Svend'd Car.

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
09/10/2019 at 00:02 • Filed to: None

Dealer badge/dealer plate frame need to come off as well as a pretty heavy detail to make it look up to my standards. But, its home and in my driveway.

Insurance is $3K a year (ugh) and we got the best looking plates (in my opinion).

DISCUSSION (18)

gettingoldercarguy > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 00:06

A wagon is all that matters

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 00:07

Congrats on the car, boo on insurance.

Future Heap Owner > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 00:08

Awwwww yeaahhhhh

Who drove it home? How did they like it?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Future Heap Owner
09/10/2019 at 00:10

My wife drove it home! she loves it!

Future Heap Owner > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 00:17

Great! Congrats to both of you! B ut mostly to her: it must feel great to not be driving a Spark.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 00:19

Yes! I’m e nvious.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Future Heap Owner
09/10/2019 at 00:22

She was happy to get into a new Elantra for the day as a rental today! Then right into the Sportwagen

Chariotoflove > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 00:30

Congrats on your new baby! I hate dealer badges. I get those off of there first thing too.

Svend > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 01:49

Welcome to the VAG club.

What is she? 1.6TDi or 2.0TDior petrol something?

CompactLuxuryFan > Svend
09/10/2019 at 03:10

North America only got the 1.8T petrol until very recently, when the 1.4T petrol became the base engine for both the Golf and the Sportwagen.

Svend > CompactLuxuryFan
09/10/2019 at 03:20

Nice.

The 1.4 is a good engine, had it in the first two Skoda Superbs.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Svend
09/10/2019 at 08:13

1.8!

Svend > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 08:23

Enjoy it mate.

You’ve got a well rounded household now.

His Stigness > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/10/2019 at 12:45

I talked a friend of mine into a 2019 Golf R the other day.

My evil plans are working.

Ash78, voting early and often > Svend
09/10/2019 at 12:59

Diesel is almost verboten here after Dieselgate, it’s like political suicide (especially when Diesel was rare to begin with).

These used to have the 2.0t , then the 1.8t, then the 2.5 , and now mostly 1.4t except for 4motion which gets...the 1.8t again.

It’s all very confusing over here.

Svend > Ash78, voting early and often
09/10/2019 at 13:30

In the U.K. we had years of the U.K. government incentivising diesels for being more environmentally friendly, now that it turns out they are less friendly to humans (especially with respiratory complaints), but car companies like Land Rover and Volvo, the large percentage, if not majority, is diesels.

It's crazy.

Ash78, voting early and often > Svend
09/10/2019 at 13:40

They weren’t exactly wrong...for a very long time, Diesel was definitely better than petrol — but that was only for CO2 emissions. Over here the EPA tended to ignore CO2 and focus on particulates and local smog , so Diesels had a hard time gaining acceptance for passenger cars . By the time VW, Mercedes, BMW, Jag, and a few others had really tweaked Diesels to where they needed to be, it was about a decade too later — direct injection, hybrids, and turbo engines (especially those that work on lower octane US-standard fuel) were already too competitive for Diesel to gain further momentum. Then VW’s problem, of course. Suddenly Diesel is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Plus it doesn’t help that most suburban fuel stations here don’t even have Diesel. Just 3 grades of petrol, typically. Occasionally E85 ethanol, as well. When you have to seek out a special fuel and pay a premium for it, it’s an uphill battle.

Nonetheless, Land Rover and Jag do still offer a pretty good array of oil-burners. Probably trying to recapture all that R&D spending while they still can...

Svend > Ash78, voting early and often
09/10/2019 at 13:55

Personally I’ll be sticking with manual and petrol for as long as I can. I don’t mind going hybrid but where I live full electric wouldn’t work.