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Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by foolfoolz »

bluedevil2k wrote: post #60
oblio wrote: post #2

This is funny, yet ridiculous :-)) Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it. I imagine it's going to be the only place they'll do it.

Their brand isn’t tainted in the US at all. You’ll see the Atlas everywhere - 160,000 sold in the last 2 years. That’s about half of Ford Explorer sales and about the same as Chevy Tahoe.

if you want a 3 row suv, the atlas is like 8-10k cheaper for the same amount of car than the others. and it doesn’t look bad. they needed something bigger than the toureg and it works

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by sillyquiet »

minxomat wrote: post #25
MattGaiser wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mistake? Look at all the coverage they are getting when they would otherwise be lost in a crowd.

Maybe they grew tired of Americans pronouncing it wrong (most V are still pronounced as F, Vettel, Volkswagen etc.) ;-) Edit: This German apologizes for an attempt at a humorous / sarcastic comment and will revert to work-machine state at once. Beep boop.

Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by TheCapn »

globular-toast wrote: post #53
TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How isn't their brand tarnished around the world? Besides the emissions scandal, their vehicles are just expensive and difficult to maintain. I've got a diesel VW Jetta. It has been nothing but a money pit. I'm in the US for reference.

Name a German brand that isn't expensive and difficult to maintain. German car manufacturers have the strongest marketing departments in the world and people will swear blind that their vehicle is reliable and costs nothing to maintain. It's incredibly difficult to get car owners to be honest about how much it really costs them and how reliable their vehicle really is. Another problem is people don't know any better.…

I think a lot of people's opinions on cars continue to be based on anecdotal experiences.

I owned 2 VWs in my life, my first, a 1999 Golf was an amazing car. It felt solid and was super reliable right up until I T-boned someone who made an illegal turn and it got written off. I drove an Acura Integra for years after that and had just tonnes of quality issues where it was needing constant maintenance. As soon as I was able to, I bought another VW, a 2003 GTI which I drove with only 1 major repair (AC Compressor) in the 200,000kms I put to it (sold it to a friend at 330,000kms, it still hasn't needed repairs).

I went to a Mazda most recently, but I can't say anything about its reliability since I just bought it in December and only have 5,000kms on it so far.

But my experience, and those among my friends (I was part of a local VW enthusiast club) is that the cars are fine. But the kicker is you need to stay on top of your maintenance. If you skimp on the regular work, you end up paying for it in the end. I had to do various work on the car merely due to its age, but ultimately I loved the VW GTI. It was solid and reliable for me.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by treis »

TLightful wrote: post #50
arcturus17 wrote: post #35

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I thought the same, it sounds completely ridiculous.

Entirely appropriate for the new direction. I dig it ... (speaking as someone who still sees their average cars as steam engine, emission test defeaters)

>I dig it

At least there's two of us amongst the sea of ridiculue.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by mortenjorck »

agrafix wrote: post #4

Hmm did they release their April 1 joke too early by mistake?

This is the Long Island Iced Tea Corp. to Long Blockchain Corp. stunt-rebrand, writ large.

They're still called Long Blockchain; they even changed their ticker symbol to LBCC. I wonder if VW will be as committed.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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So, did they take it down, or is VW really blocking European countries?

EDIT: it's back up now. Site was probably just hugged to death.

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