Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Motormouth" channel.

  1. Tipsy Penguin It’s because our CUVs are cheap and fuel is cheap and because lots of North Americans still live outside of major cities. The added ground clearance allows for driving in snow and the extra head and cargo room make things more practical. Also easier to use with child seats. If Europe’s fuel cost as little as in North America, they’d drive CUVs instead of wagons too.
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  2. Math123 They won’t. They’re introducing a small CUV soon, slotted below the Tiguan. That puts the nail in the Golf coffin. I imagine Canada will lose the Golf hatch 1-2 years after that. An R version of the Tarok, combined with their compact EV will also probably kill the GTI, unfortunately.
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  3. Math123 No one goes off road. No one. I’ll bet you’ve never in the last 20 years have had to go actually off of a road (paved or unpaved) to get somewhere. Perhaps you may have gone because you simply wanted to, but not because you had to. A Camry can handle anywhere you need to go.
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  4. I don't think that's true at all. This reviewer seems to be getting almost half the information wrong.
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  5. I imagine the Mark VIII Golfs will be better built as the production of all of them will be in Europe once again. I also imagine the prices on them will go up for the same reason. Hopefully VW will install MPI versions of their TSIs for the Canadian market. Any updates on the Tarok yet?
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  6. I think you REALLY need to edit your intro text. Full of wrong info and typos. You're mixing up information of the gasoline XSE (yes, that's a thing) with the information of the Hybrid one. 1. The torque vectoring is on the gasoline XSE ONLY. The Hybrid drivetrain CANNOT send 50% of the torque anywhere. Its rear axle and front axle are completely separated. The rear gets powered by the electric motor ONLY. All other gasoline AWD systems are more basic than the XSE and don't have the torque vectoring. 2. Also, electric motors ALWAYS give you 100% torque from 0 rpms. There's no tuning or "turning on the responsiveness" of electric motors. 3. The 2.5L engine doesn't run on "Atkinson and regular cycles". In the Hybrid, it is an Atkinson cycle. In the gasoline version, it is a regular cycle engine. I have never ever seen a more inaccurate and typo-ridden online auto review. I'm shocked as to how inaccurate it is. Meanwhile, you failed to mention that the hybrid now has the battery solely under the rear seat, meaning the seats fold down completely flat, just like in the non-hybrid version and it has the same exact cargo volume as the non-hybrid AND a compact spare tire. You also didn't mention that even the most base models will come with a giant host of active safety issues including pedestrian recognition, active cruise control and more.
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  7. The Golf wagons are gone. Period. The Golf production (all of it) is moving back to Europe. What the Puebla factory will build now is the Tiguan, Jetta and the new sub-compact CUV, the Tarek.
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  8. Duncan Idaho Literally ANYTHING can be fixed. Taking off the head and cleaning the tops of valves costs far more than $1500. They didn’t do that for you.
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  9. This is a sub-compact. The Matrix was a compact, just like all Corollas. Its equivalent would be an Elantra.,
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  10. 42dunbar I agree. In city driving you never even get to the boost and it’s a dog without it. Not going to miss the Golf. Way overpriced for what you get.
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  11. arof Yeah... you can put it into sport in auto too, but you lose the fuel economy, but you still don’t get the performance of the old 1.8 TSi, nor its smoothness.
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  12. NZsarge1 The standard size Tiguan is not planned for North America as it’s made in Europe and the tariffs would price it well into the Mexican-made Tiguan we already have. It’s too bad. I think it’s the best car VW has on offer right now, in Europe. I’d also love for Škoda to be imported, but again, they’d be too expensive for what they are due to shipping and tariff costs. We will get the Tarek, which will be built in Puebla, Mexico, alongside the Jetta and Tiguan. The North American Passat and Atlas are built in the U.S.,
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  13. Please remember that the Volkswagens in Europe are not the Volkswagens in North America. Aside from the Golf and Jetta, all other VW models sold in North America were designed for North America and China. Most Volkswagens in North America are cheap knockoffs of their Euro cousins. That’s to keep costs down as cars are much cheaper in N. America, so much less profitable for VAG. To that, VAG doesn’t sell Seat or Škoda in the US or Canada, so even less profit. Europe gets different engines and transmissions. Over 90% of Volkswagen group vehicles in Europe are sold with manual transmissions and over 80% with Diesel engines. That impacts average reliability. Also, the TSI engines in Europe get multi-port injection. In North America they’re sold with Direct Injection because according to Volkswagen, it keeps costs down. That impacts reliability too. In general, reliability expectations are different between Europe and the US as well. The Japanese cars are very expensive in Europe, so fairly rare. Most cars are European or Korean and until recently, the latter weren’t known for stellar reliability either. Americans expect more because they’re used to it.
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  14. No hybrid versions in North America.
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  15. Math123 You’re not disputing the fact though, and that speaks volumes. It is EXACTLY why CUVs are not created for off-roading. No one needs to do that anymore, and the few that do it as a hobby (clearly not you), need short wheelbase, narrow and light solid axle vehicles like the Wrangler 2-door, Suzuki Jimny or the 2-door G Wagen. You’re the proof wannabe for the manufacturer.
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  16. The Tarek is coming and it will fill that void.
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  17. Adventure IS the trim. This guy makes NO sense.
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  18. IF they could get the NOX emissions down? Yes. Otherwise, absolutely not.
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  19. Joe Bloggs Have you checked your valves for carbon build-up yet? You’re at the critical point with 60k miles.
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  20. James Oldman How old does a car need to be to get an exemption in Canada? It’s 25 years in the U.S. I would love to import a B-Class Merc into the U.S.
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  21. Yes. Yes, it would.
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  22. Matthew Gaines Again, these TSI engines will be around for decades and every manufacturer is switching to electric, so I’ll guess you’ll be walking.
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  23. David Giles Get the Buick while you can! The GM deal with Opel will expire soon and it will be gone!
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  24. Adventure uses a different suspension setup and a more capable AWD than the Hybrid.
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  25. What “cooler specs” does Canada get on the Golf over the US?
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  26. danI43541 Those aren’t specs. They’re just different names for what the US gets: S, SE, etc.
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  27.  @bobbybobby6906  I saw. It makes sense. It would be too expensive to import it from Europe.
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  28.  @philiptownsend4026  Why? In most ways, Mk 8 is a better car.
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  29. Bruno The Pug No mistake. Neither sells well, so the production of Golfs is going back to Europe, making their sales in the US too expensive for any profit. The Puebla factory that made them, New Beetles, Tiguans and Jettas will now make the Tiguan, Jetta and new sub-compact called Tarek, about the size of the old Tiguan.
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  30. nastythomashobbs As a “car nut” are you aware of the TSI carbon build-up issue and that VW chose not to sell the MPI engines in North America despite them being certified here and available in Europe?
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  31. The Forester is MUCH slower.
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  32. Way to not criticize ANYTHING about the car. More like a Toyota ad.
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  33. The Honda recall is only in China.
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