VW EA888

yes

it's boxy and you can tune the ever living dog shit out of it so it's making like 600 horsepower out of a 2 liter turbo 4 like an EA triple A like cause like the mark 7 my mark 7 GTI right and like I guess the Mark 8 as well that's an EA888 Gen 3 2 liter turbo 4 cylinder stock it's like 200 something horsepower throw a computer at it it's making 300 something throw a computer and a bigger turbo on it holy shit you're making 4, 5, 600 horsepower

out of a 2 liter I do love this idea.

The other option for the Plymouth, the Barracuda.

is provided by a 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engine that makes 158 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque.

And if you're paying attention, yeah, it's the EA888 configuration.

Energy is transmitted to the front drive wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission.

For the base Jetta, for the regular standard Jetta, a manual gearbox is not offered.

Audi S3.

Yes, and we know the EA888 has its foibles.

Mm-hmm.

But, uh, the newer they got, the better they got, and it's just a water pump, do that every few years.

Yep.

That's what makes it underrated.

I think as well, n- now that the EA888's little idiosyncrasies are so well known, and there's so much aftermarket, you know, support for this car-

Yeah