Honda not-so-recently revealed their model year 2000 Insight, and clearly it's a complete rip off of Volkswagen's XL1 eco car.

VW's Walter de Silva recently said he is "convinced that a small roadster wouldn't be the worst thing for Volkswagen." It's probably the opposite of the worst thing. The worst thing would be the company going out of business.

It's a strange feeling when you kind of agree with something that Charles Manson did. It's not a good feeling. But I just learned that Charles Manson's insane "Helter Skelter" global race war fever dream used battalions of VW and Porsche-based dune buggies as key components, and I gotta say, at least in this one detail, …

In not one, but two handicapped spots. (H/T to @apawliuk)

Long before VW started giving their vehicles African tribal sobriquets, the company’s products broke a lot of wind. Passat, Golf, Jetta, and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate Scirocco, were all named after winds that blow. Coincidentally, it’s up to you to determine if this clean coupe’s price blows.

Road America is a four mile ribbon of asphalt carefully placed right smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin. It's probably the greatest natural terrain road course in all of North America. This is what it's like when you go around it at speeds that aren't at all possible.

Today a number of topless protesters loudly confronted Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel at a trade show in Germany, with Putin making headlines for giving the women two thumbs up. Also of note was VW CEO Martin Winterkorn bearing a loving grin.

In our post-carpocalyptic and post-paper world, truly amazing auto show press reveals are a rarity. Rightfully so. Why spend tens of millions of dollars to unveil a car to a group of balding, morbidly-obese, and irrelevant auto "press" when it's already been seen online by an audience a thousand times larger and more…

Move aside, whippersnapper.

Fiat used to own SEAT, but these days the company that's as Spanish as paella is a subsidiary of Volkswagen. At no time, under either of those companies, did the US get a chance at Seat ownership. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ibiza intends to change all that, but only if enough of you own up to liking its price.