Maybe another factor is the fact you could "feel that there was a lot of water on the roadway."

Seems with new cars, the design is to isolate the operator from the driving experience as much as possible.

Glad you are okay, we need you around here.

BTW, I picked up a star magazine at my indie's and notice a brief article about a new high mileage record: a 115 with about 2.4 million miles. Can't remember all the details but it was in a taxi fleet. It said they rotated 3 different engines into the car 11 times. I'll take another look at the article when I go back.

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63 220S W111
76 300D W115
2013 VW JSW TDI M6

previously-
73 280 SEL 4.5
86 300E 5 speed
2010 VW Jetta TDI M6