Speeding sucks 4156

No. It shows that the vehicle was designed with the capability of going over 100 mph They drive TDI's on the Autobahn in Germany, after all (although most people on the Autobahn are doing under 100 miles per hour).

That's your opinion. A badly distorted opinion.

You ought to watch rally racing some time. Those cars are rarely doing over 100 mph (sometimes much slower), but are they driving fast? Yes. At one time the greatest rally car in the world was the Mini Cooper, beating cars much bigger than it in size, and still holding its own when "better" cars were introduced. Most Americans would laugh their socks off to hear that one. Note: the rest of the world doesn't worship horsepower, and maybe they have a point. Especially when they are paying over 4 dollars per gallon for fuel.

They meet alot of peoples needs. They also don't cost a fortune to fuel, which in my book is a good thing.

Right here it proves what you don't know about diesels.

My car is an automatic, so it shifts when its fuzzy logic feels like it, within certain broad rules of course (use less gas and it shifts early, use more gas and it delays shifting, etc. ). If you are driving a manual TDI and shifting at redline, you are driving very, very wrong. At that speed the engine has no more power to give. Best to shift before 3000 RPM. Truck drivers practice "progressive shifting" and it really doesn't affect acceleration all that much, because diesels produce most of their power at lower RPM's. A TDI should be relatively low RPM and quieter than a gasoline-powered car at 60 mph- and if isn't you are shifting wrong. With a driver like yourself, you'ld definitely be better off with an automatic, because it would do a beter job of shifting than you could.