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It's interesting to read David Zenlea's complaint about the location of the volume knob, because in our Four Seasons review of the 2005 Audi A6, we declared that placement to be a brilliant piece of ergonomic design. Sure, if you don't drive an Audi every day you might have a hard time finding the control, but with familiarity you'll see that its placement is exactly where your right hand naturally falls. For me, the placement if perfect, but to each his own, I suppose.inline_mediumwraptextright31490505/reviews/editors_notebook/0911_2010_audi_a6_30_tfsi_quattro0911_19_z+2010_audi_a6+rear_three_quarter_view.jpgTrue

Does it feel as if your state has it out for drivers? Taxes, tolls, and fees; fines, license suspension, and revocation; beat-up roads, traffic congestion, arcane rules, and bureaucracy - drivers are pummeled at every turn. But it's not the same everywhere. We wanted to know where drivers are treated (relatively) well - and where they're constantly given the shaft. We gathered a raft of data from all fifty states and ran it through a special formula to help quantify the pain. This produced scores in three general areas: Cost, Aggravation, and Harassment. Adding the three together gave us a Total Driver Misery Index, which rates each state on the hostility it shows toward motorists. Maybe in so doing we can encourage states to treat us a little better. If not, at least you'll know exactly how bad you've got it.inline_mediumwraptextright31634943/features/news/1001_rate_the_states_total_driver_misery_index1001_01_z+rate_the_states+illustration.jpgTrue