PureWhiteMk7
Go Kart Newbie
- Location
- Sherman Oaks, CA
OK this is a silly thread topic but stay with me here. My wife and I had car leases expire during the pandemic.
She wanted a Jeep, and I wanted another GTI but I decided to buy this time because duh sick deals like 0% percent
financing and 6 months no payments. But that's not the story. These two brand new cars out of the showroom have
entirely different smells. First the Jeep. It smells absolutely awful like a noxious mix of plastic and chemicals. The GTI
smells like a car, with a very faint smell of newness. Fast-forward 3 months later, the GTI still smells like a car
but that faint smell is gone. It now smells like me which means I can't really smell anything that distinct or offensive.
The Jeep still exactly the same. In a word poisonous! It's almost as if It will smell that way for at least another year
unless we just drive 24 hours though the desert with the doors off in full sun. So even with it's faults, every VW I have
ever purchased new in recent years never made me gag with new car smell. That is one thing I really appreciate
them getting right.
She wanted a Jeep, and I wanted another GTI but I decided to buy this time because duh sick deals like 0% percent
financing and 6 months no payments. But that's not the story. These two brand new cars out of the showroom have
entirely different smells. First the Jeep. It smells absolutely awful like a noxious mix of plastic and chemicals. The GTI
smells like a car, with a very faint smell of newness. Fast-forward 3 months later, the GTI still smells like a car
but that faint smell is gone. It now smells like me which means I can't really smell anything that distinct or offensive.
The Jeep still exactly the same. In a word poisonous! It's almost as if It will smell that way for at least another year
unless we just drive 24 hours though the desert with the doors off in full sun. So even with it's faults, every VW I have
ever purchased new in recent years never made me gag with new car smell. That is one thing I really appreciate
them getting right.
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