5 Of Our Favorite Cars With Notoriously Unreliable Cooling Systems

For cooling systems to work right, they need to keep the coolant inside the system. With water cooling being the industry-wide standard for a century, you would figure at some point early on that manufacturers would have it all figured out. Alas, that’s not the case. Plastics and penny-pinching are the modern choices, and that’s led to some less-than-robust cooling systems across Europe’s most prominent manufacturers. If you’re not too fond of coolant-covered hands and anxious glances at the temperature gauge, you may want to avoid these vehicles.

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Volkswagen Golf R Generations Explained

The Volkswagen Golf and its variants have been the hatchback and hot-hatch benchmark since their earliest days in the seventies. Challengers have come and gone, taking shots at the King for decades, but the staple from Wolfsburg is still the one to beat. The GTI was the peak of the Golf’s range for the first three generations, offering solid performance in a usable and reliable package. After that, though, VW knew there was something special to be made with their VR6 engine and Haldex Traction-based all-wheel-drive system, so they shoved it into the Mk4 Golf, molded on some big flares, and birthed the first of the Golf R family. It was called the R32 then, but has since dropped the narrow-angle V6 to become the all-conquering Golf R.

A United Nations Regulation Can Help You Find Quality Brake Pads At Affordable Prices

You often hear about Genuine, OE, and OEM parts tags with different explanations from different people. We have the only guide you’ll ever need to explain that, but it doesn’t go into what parts need to go through or achieve to have the latter two designations. The truth is that there aren’t any characteristics or regulations; as long as they are the original equipment or made by another company that makes some other original equipment, they earn those designations. However, that doesn’t mean aftermarket parts should be viewed any less. As with brake parts, there’s an agreed-upon automotive standard regulation, which means far more for quality than an OE or OEM label. Rather than look for the latter two, you should look for the ECE R90 certification.

The Weirdest AMG Ever Made Uses A Five-Cylinder Diesel

The AMG brand has undergone several evolutions over the years dedicated to building the most developed Mercedes vehicles money can buy. Racing fame in the seventies gave way to the tuner boom of the eighties, where they captured the hearts and minds of many an enthusiast. Their acquisition by Mercedes in the nineties cemented their connection to the brand, and they’ve been a household name ever since. Paramount to their reputation are the tuned engines that turn gasoline into earth-moving torque and a thunderous soundtrack. Though, I should say that that’s every AMG model but one. What few in the ‘States realize is that for a brief time under the Mercedes banner, AMG strayed from tradition and put their engineering expertise into a diesel.