2004 - Volkswagen R32 on 2040-cars
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
This car is a tank with the raw power and the AWD! It puts a lot of smiles on peoples' faces and sounds amazing but I'm selling it since I moved to the city, so the car is no longer practical for me. I keep an organied folder with receipts from repairs. The VF Engineering supercharger kit was professionally installed by AWE Tuning. Very few (I've heard under 2,000) were made in Reflex Silver w/ cloth 2 tone seats. Anybody who knows VW's knows that the mk4 R32's are the highest quality and nicest looking VW's. As long as I've owned it it's always been hand washed, always used 93+ octane gas, always garaged, always driven below 2.5k rpm before warmed up, always maintained by excellent techs. Clean title. Paint is great and NO rust! I've Never had any problems with the supercharger kit. Video of another R32 w/ the same supercharger kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_10ciXLbbM The following work has all been done in the last 16 months and I have the receipts : All new brake pads and rotors (OEM) New Tires (approx. 80% TREAD LEFT!) New Coolant Temp Sensor New Shifter Plate New Spark Plugs (2k miles ago) New Charger Oil Line (1k miles ago) New A/C Compressor (2k miles ago) New Supercharger Belt (2k miles ago) New Camshaft Speed Sensor (1k miles ago) Tranny fluid flush (2k miles ago) Coolant Flush (2k miles ago) Oil change (2k miles ago) Sunroof drains cleaned out (2k miles ago) * Never dyoned, trcked, etc. but car is rated around 375hp on 93octane Aftermarket: -VF Engineering stage II Supercharger kit (fully polished option) w/ Intercooler (professionally installed by AWE Tuning) -Twin diverter valves option -Flapper Mod (necessary for the high HP) - Audi TT 18" Spare donut tire - pro tint job (it's completely needed since the interior being black gets very hot) -THULE Roof Racks w/ sport visor The Bad: The R32 is officially 10 years old so it's got some flaws: Front bumper lower corner cracked from hitting a curb stop - from previous owner Quarter size dent in driver's side front fender. A few rock chips on hood One of the cooling fans is out but never had problems when the outside temp is below 70 degrees... It only begins overheating if you're in traffic for a long time or running it hard without a rest) Minor Vibration at about 900 rpm sometimes... I've talked to a few techs about the issue and they say it's a vacuum leak (a common occurrence on these supercharger kits) Very difficult to find a high HP, tuned car that was very well cared for. Let me know if you have any questions!
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Autoblog Minute: VW Q3 financial woes, 2015 Tokyo Motor Show
Fri, Oct 30 2015Consumer Reports pulls its Tesla recommendation, the U.S. Copyright Office offers a ruling affecting car owners, VW gets hit hard with third-quarter losses, and lots of exciting news from Tokyo. Autoblog senior editor Greg Migliore reports on this edition of Autoblog Minute Weekly Recap. Show full video transcript text [00:00:00] Consumer Reports pulls its Tesla recommendation, the U.S. copyright office offers a ruling that affects car owners and gear heads, VW gets hit hard with third-quarter losses, and lots of exciting news from Tokyo. I'm senior editor Greg Migliore and this is your Autoblog Minute Weekly Recap. After a week away testing vehicles for Autoblog's Tech of the Year award, we're back in the office to recap the week in automotive news. [00:00:30] One of the things you might have missed was Consumer Reports pulling its recommendation of Tesla's Model S sedan. The blemish for Tesla comes after a tally of reviews from customer surveys. The most common problem areas for the Model S as cited by survey takers included: the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks. So lots of stuff. Though they could not ignore a score of "worse-than-average", Consumer Reports still [00:01:00] highlighted the fact that the Model S was "the best performing car" they've ever tested. Telsa CEO Elon Musk took to social media to defend his sedans saying: "Consumer Reports reliability survey includes a lot of early production cars. Already addressed in new cars." And, "Tesla gets top rating of any company in service. Most important, CR says 97% of owners expect their next car to be a Tesla (the acid test)." In Financial news, Volkswagen took a hit and reported an operating loss of [00:01:30] $3.84 billion. This is the first such loss for VW in 15 years. Toyota reclaimed the crown as the world's largest automaker as well. It's important that it's not all doom and gloom for VW though in Q3. Sales revenues were up and the company's automotive division boasts $30 billion dollars in liquid assets. It's a sizable war chest that will no doubt come in handy, as the company has yet to feel the full brunt of the diesel emissions scandal. Good news for gear heads. The US copyright office [00:02:00] ruled in favor of mechanics and car owners by granting an exception to existing copyright law. The law was originally meant to prevent software pirating and bootlegging of Hollywood movies.
A car writer's year in new vehicles [w/video]
Thu, Dec 18 2014Christmas is only a week away. The New Year is just around the corner. As 2014 draws to a close, I'm not the only one taking stock of the year that's we're almost shut of. Depending on who you are or what you do, the end of the year can bring to mind tax bills, school semesters or scheduling dental appointments. For me, for the last eight or nine years, at least a small part of this transitory time is occupied with recalling the cars I've driven over the preceding 12 months. Since I started writing about and reviewing cars in 2006, I've done an uneven job of tracking every vehicle I've been in, each year. Last year I made a resolution to be better about it, and the result is a spreadsheet with model names, dates, notes and some basic facts and figures. Armed with this basic data and a yen for year-end stories, I figured it would be interesting to parse the figures and quantify my year in cars in a way I'd never done before. The results are, well, they're a little bizarre, honestly. And I think they'll affect how I approach this gig in 2015. {C} My tally for the year is 68 cars, as of this writing. Before the calendar flips to 2015 it'll be as high as 73. Let me give you a tiny bit of background about how automotive journalists typically get cars to test. There are basically two pools of vehicles I drive on a regular basis: media fleet vehicles and those available on "first drive" programs. The latter group is pretty self-explanatory. Journalists are gathered in one location (sometimes local, sometimes far-flung) with a new model(s), there's usually a day of driving, then we report back to you with our impressions. Media fleet vehicles are different. These are distributed to publications and individual journalists far and wide, and the test period goes from a few days to a week or more. Whereas first drives almost always result in a piece of review content, fleet loans only sometimes do. Other times they serve to give context about brands, segments, technology and the like, to editors and writers. So, adding up the loans I've had out of the press fleet and things I've driven at events, my tally for the year is 68 cars, as of this writing. Before the calendar flips to 2015, it'll be as high as 73. At one of the buff books like Car and Driver or Motor Trend, reviewers might rotate through five cars a week, or more. I know that number sounds high, but as best I can tell, it's pretty average for the full-time professionals in this business.
Volkswagen Group previews its wares on eve of Geneva show
Mon, 05 Mar 2012The Volkswagen Group is comprised of 11 brands producing 240 vehicles across 49 factories throughout the world. So the best way to show off the range of the VW family is to cram a few thousand journalists and VIPs into a massive makeshift stand to outline the Group's goals, what's in the pipeline and what you'll be able to buy later this year.
To that end, VW pulled out all the stops on the eve of the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, bringing along 10 vehicles from across the range. We'll be delving into the details of each over the next two days of show coverage, but before that happens, you can read all about what we saw tonight from the cheap seats after the break.