Let’s pause for a brief celebration of great industrial design.  I have a 2002 Jetta.  It’s an ok car in general, a V6 with a manual transmission so it’s pretty fun to drive, but it’s nowhere near my wife’s 2000 Accord in terms of overall robustness, build quality, etc.  The one thing that is totally awesome, however, is the way the windows work.  You know, those glass things that are on the doors that you look out of.  Two killer features:

• On both front side windows, you can press the switch once in either direction until it “clicks” to cause the window to go up or down all the way automatically.  That’s right folks, not only to open them all the way (which my Honda does), but to close them as well.  I’ve never tried the experiment of putting my arm in there to see how much pressure it takes to reverse them, but I imagine it wouldn’t chop it off.  This is exceedingly useful for tollbooths (those old school kind with no EZ-Pass), drive-throughs, needing to give someone the finger, etc. 
• After you shut the car off and remove the key, you still have the ability to control the windows until you open the door.  This is awesome for things like cracking them when parking in the heat, closing a window you accidentally left open, etc.

In any case, just wanted to take a moment to recognize the substantial accomplishment of the windows subsystem team at VW.  Good show.  Who the hell needs auto-parallel-parking Lexi anyway.