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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: No More Jag Wagons, Ferrari Land USA, And Volkswagen’s Punishment!


Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: No More Jag Wagons, Ferrari Land USA, And Volkswagen’s Punishment!

Raise your hands if you’ve been in the middle of spring cleaning! Don’t know why you raised your hands…but hey, at least you have been doing your part in tidying up the house and getting rid of some garbage that has been laying around. We’ve been doing kind of the same thing: you see, we get tons of press bits to go through and mull over, and they collect up. Every week, we like to take the majority of them and cram them into the recycling bin, but every now and then we find a clip that’s worth a quick mention, a quick roasting, and a couple of moments of your time. This is what we call Scrapple…enjoy!

1. Yellow Submarine, This is Not.

peter blake bentley

See the name on the number plate? That is Peter Blake, as in Sir Peter Blake, the man who created the cover artwork for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Bentley Continental GT V8 S droptop is meant to be a conversation piece and will be auctioned off during the Bonhams’ auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with the benefits going to Care2Save Charitable Trust, a worldwide hospice and palliative care organization. As much as we’d love to rip on the car’s looks, we can’t…anything that is done in for the sake of hospice care, have at and best of luck.

2. No Wagon For You!

jaguar xfr sportbrake

Jaguar Land Rover have officially cited the end of the station wagon from Jaguar’s lineup. The wagons…er, “sportbrakes”, suffered the same fate that most uniquely awesome cars suffer: nobody will buy the thing. Specifically, station wagons are all but extinct because of the sports-utility vehicle, and Jaguar has responded to the trend with the F-Pace sports-ute. Which means that the XFR-S Sportbrake shown above will never happen again.

3. Stand in line for fourteen hours, ride three rides…

F12-ferrari-sideways

In transitioning Ferrari from a racing car brand to the pinnacle of a luxury lifestyle…you know, something that is making Enzo Ferrari spin in his grave at 9,500 RPM…word is starting to get out that there might be a North American Ferrari World theme park. Calm down and picture a Six Flags, but with a car theme instead of some bored teenager in a Porky Pig costume. Chances are good that the park will end up near a major U.S. city like Los Angeles, New York, or the like, and chances are real good that just like other theme parks, you’ll be fleeced for all the money you have and leave covered in tons of theme merchandise and swag, without going anywhere near a real Ferrari. No, not even a California or a 400i.

4. Uh, oh…guess who else has been lying about their eco-abilities…

Mitsubishi eK

Mitsubishi has been called out for falsifying fuel economy claims by Nissan. Here’s how this played out: you see that little penalty box? That’s the Mitsubishi eK, a small kei-class car from Japan. It’s made in two forms: what you see and an even boxier “wagon” variant. Nissan has been getting a rebadged version, the Dayz and Dayz Roox. Nissan noted that Mitsubishi falsified tire pressure settings, something that is pivotal for a car that sells based on fuel economy, and raised the flag to authorities. Mitsubishi has stopped manufacturing while the issue is sorted out, but that didn’t stop their stock from plunging 15% after the announcement.

5. But VW is still going to have it worse off in the end.

DasFraud

Volkswagen managed to meet the deadline to create a deal for the “Dieselgate” affected cars that have been at the center of the gigantic meltdown that has been going on since late last year. Here’s how the deal between VW, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), EPA, and Federal Trade Commission stacks up for the 482,000 2.0L diesel-powered Volkswagen and Audi vehicles: affected owners will be offered one of three options: a buyback, a lease cancellation option, or a fix (once said fix is approved by the federal government.) There is also still talk of a customer reimbursement for the damages caused by purchasing a vehicle that didn’t live up to standards expected, so the Portland note-scrawler can finally remove that Scotch Broom stick from out of their fourth-point of contact. This doesn’t mean that Dieselgate is over…far from it, there is still a mountain of paperwork to go through…but it’s a step in the direction that Volkswagen needs to take.


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5 thoughts on “Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: No More Jag Wagons, Ferrari Land USA, And Volkswagen’s Punishment!

  1. Gary Smrtic

    For me, I’d buy a Volkswagon just because of what they did and how they did it, and I’d hang the guy that figured out what it was. This is all bullshit, and the idea that the federal government can exert such force in the marketplace is repugnant.

  2. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    Great – so that means the price for a new diesel VW has fallen again – I’d buy one just to infuriate those whining tree-hugging “warmists”!

  3. Gump

    The fix for the VW? Close the EPA\’s doors, and remove all the emissions equipment from ALL diesels to let them breathe.

  4. Scott Liggett

    I am so pissed. I bought that Mitsubishi for its mpg claims. Why else would you buy such an ugly freaking car?

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