Comments by "Stephen Hendricks" (@stephenhendricks103) on "" video.

  1. Love the Alltrack. Tried to convince my wife of its appeal last year when we were replacing an SUV. But since that car is her daily driver she got to choose a vehicle with a higher driver's position. (That choice among female drivers, by the way, largely explains the obsession with SUV's and the decline in both the wagon and family sedan segments.) I would have gone with the Alltrack but I have my GTI to salve my wounds.
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  2. Fortunately, you don't have to purchase a 2017 model. The 2019 model has LED's front and rear.
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  3.  @bryanmabbott  You forgot Ford and Chevy's other sins. I'll never consider a Ford after the exploding Pinto scandal and the "unsafe at any speed" Corvair. My question is how long the boycott should last. Is it over yet? And another question. Should the boycott extend to VW's other brands and to VW's that were never involved in emission cheating? No GTI's, no Porsche's, no Audi's, etc. etc. Should the tens of thousands of VW employees who had nothing, whatsoever, to do with Dieselgate be punished? No one should seek to excuse VW's emission cheating with "what-about-ism." It was a terrible episode and deserved severe punishment. And the 22 VW executives who actually went to jail in Germany, along with many others whose careers were ruined, and the ninety plus that are still under criminal investigation would argue they were, indeed, punished. Dieselgate cost VW over $2,000,000,000 (that's $2 billion) in direct costs. Their market for diesels, a major profit center in North America was destroyed and the company has effectively abandoned long-term diesel development. Just how much punishment is enough?
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  4.  @crownr0yalonice  I understand. But time machines are in short supply.
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  5.  @SquidCena  I agree. Deserves more attention than it receives.
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  6.  @wbwayne8887  That claim ignores the fact that Mercedes and BMW have been selling diesels in the US for years with cheating. As for Mazda, good luck to them but I'd bet the farm that their diesel will be gone from North America within five years if not sooner.
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  7. City mpg is 22. Highway is 30. And that peppy 1.8L turbo engine has a 0-60 time under 7 seconds and the AWD robs a couple of mpg's compared to a FWD vehicle. The Mazda CX-5, for example, with a turbo 4 and AWD, with the same passenger and cargo space in a crossover configuration is 22/27/24.
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  8.  @rv2167  We looked at the Tiguan carefully. Frankly, I think I was a bit unfair to it as a result of having a MK6 "tuned" GTI. The seating position and overall interior layout was so familiar I think I expected it to perform in a manner similar to my GTI. Not surprisingly, it didn't. In fact, I felt it was rather sluggish unless I put it in sport mode. We resolved the issue by getting my wife a new KIA Sorento to replace her 2012 model and I bought a new GTI to replace my 2013 model. Bank account suffered a bit but we're both happy. :)
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