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Doug DeMuro
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“your ninth favorite weekly Jalopnik column that you read on the train when your Kindle is out of batteries.” Read more

There are people out there who owned a first-generation Volkswagen Touareg — the Touareg that would turn off its headlights when another Touareg was approaching because it mistook the other Touareg’s headlights for the sun — and went right out and bought a second Touareg later. And there are thousands of these people. Read more

“The answer to this question is clearly yes. I say this because Volkswagen has spent the last decade or two building unreliable, mediocre, poorly constructed automobiles, and people keep buying them.”

- Amen Read more

I went to a liberal arts college, so I believe I am clearly qualified to tackle this challenging engineering problem. Read more

I’m starting to think you don’t like Volkswagens Doug.
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Thank you Doug. Since the news of VW’s lying broke I’ve avoided sleep until you could speak up on this travesty. Off to catch a brisk 16 hour post-meth nap. Read more

I got to “hummer” in the title and just opened up in another tab smiling with glee, didn’t even look at who wrote it or where you took it. Read more

you next to never see a full sized Krackel bar, just those little ones built for bitches. Read more

I laughed immediately at the headline. Kudos sir. Read more

This video was great for midday laugh....I needed that. Thank you Doug and please keep this up. Read more

Jesus Doug, way to make all of us in our late 20’s feel even older than our growing beer guts and receding hairlines already are.
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I worked at Dell back when we learned Michael and team had cooked the books. That was nothing compared to the VW fiasco, and yet we went weeks where no one could get any work done. Stock options were worthless, layoffs were coming, and any pride in our engineering work seemed pointless when we knew our “leadership” Read more

It sucks for the thousands of VW employees who were led to believe they were selling a good product and now their livelihoods are in jeopardy. Everyday going forward, their workday is going to suck. Read more

What we’re witnessing here gentlemen is the beginning of the fall of the fourth Reich Read more

Thanks Doug, always been a big fan of your articles. Feel free to stop in anytime, our new shop is only about 3-4 miles away from AWE’s new location Read more

I love that this comment is basically exactly the same style as your articles, just shorter. Good information, and a snarky punchline at the end. Classic DeMuro. Read more

Apparently the thinking in Japan at the time was that a car with more than 300 horsepower would kill small children and possibly cute wildlife, while those items would bounce harmlessly off a car with less than 300 horsepower. Although this does not make sense to me, bear in mind that this is the nation that gave us Read more

Ha...it was fun. I calculated a (very) rough estimate of how many free beers I drank that weekend, I don’t think that I want to disclose that number to the world. Read more