I wonder if other people just hate specific manufacturers for not good reason. I do. Right now, it is VW. Don't ask me why.
While posting about a VW, I was thinking about how much VW could make me enter a red mist of online rage (ok, not really, but close). I am realizing that for some reason I just disagree with VW's current "philosophy" ...which is odd. Top-to-bottom, just hate. I do not like what they produce, how they position it, or their corporate identity... period. Scandal aside, the way they make cars just bugs the living daylight out of me. Do I have a bad experience with VW? Nope. The biggest life-experience with VW was learning stick/performance-oriented driving on a Fox, but that was fun so my hate has to be something else. I have never liked their cars (save for the MkV GTI, Corrado) or really hate a specific model. There are exceptions that prove the rule, but they are exceptions. Audi, meh, I liked their previous design. That was about it. I would take an S5 with the 4.2 in a heartbeat due to the style but it is an exception... and I would like to keep my S5 fantasies just that: unrealized. At times I have wanted a VW up until I experienced it and then I rage-quit. Sitting in my sister-in-laws new Jetta I was fighting the urge to not "critique" it. "Get me out" is all I was thinking.
Even other manufacturer like Chrysler (which I have had a lot of bad experience with) I can at least respect what they do. The HEMI-murican mentality... I get it. I would never buy a Mopar paperweight for fear of reliability issues but I get the Chrysler mentality (and quietly cheer them on). I see a reason for their choices even if it is something I would not do myself. Other makes, Ford, GM, Honda, Kia, Fiat... I get. If I have had a bad experience, I can pinpoint it. Maybe at times I like to rage against "new" Honda compared to what they used to be but I can, at least wrap my head around their demise. Volkswagen might as well be evil-incarnate. An irrational choice with only irrational reactions possible. VW, might as well be producing hate filled vehicles from the 30s as to my reaction (which I even realize are not always valid).
Anyone else hate a make for no-good reason?
While posting about a VW, I was thinking about how much VW could make me enter a red mist of online rage (ok, not really, but close). I am realizing that for some reason I just disagree with VW's current "philosophy" ...which is odd. Top-to-bottom, just hate. I do not like what they produce, how they position it, or their corporate identity... period. Scandal aside, the way they make cars just bugs the living daylight out of me. Do I have a bad experience with VW? Nope. The biggest life-experience with VW was learning stick/performance-oriented driving on a Fox, but that was fun so my hate has to be something else. I have never liked their cars (save for the MkV GTI, Corrado) or really hate a specific model. There are exceptions that prove the rule, but they are exceptions. Audi, meh, I liked their previous design. That was about it. I would take an S5 with the 4.2 in a heartbeat due to the style but it is an exception... and I would like to keep my S5 fantasies just that: unrealized. At times I have wanted a VW up until I experienced it and then I rage-quit. Sitting in my sister-in-laws new Jetta I was fighting the urge to not "critique" it. "Get me out" is all I was thinking.
Even other manufacturer like Chrysler (which I have had a lot of bad experience with) I can at least respect what they do. The HEMI-murican mentality... I get it. I would never buy a Mopar paperweight for fear of reliability issues but I get the Chrysler mentality (and quietly cheer them on). I see a reason for their choices even if it is something I would not do myself. Other makes, Ford, GM, Honda, Kia, Fiat... I get. If I have had a bad experience, I can pinpoint it. Maybe at times I like to rage against "new" Honda compared to what they used to be but I can, at least wrap my head around their demise. Volkswagen might as well be evil-incarnate. An irrational choice with only irrational reactions possible. VW, might as well be producing hate filled vehicles from the 30s as to my reaction (which I even realize are not always valid).
Anyone else hate a make for no-good reason?