For me it's not negativity, but total disinterest. The same way I feel about sport. I see people cranking up about sport, spending hours and money on watching, sometimes actually doing, but my interest-anometer, never twitches.
Actually I'm the same for motorbikes and watches!
My diesel Golf was doing 62-66mpg indicated in the Highlands last week. Range 600 miles. We can get home from there without refuelling. It's 14 years old, and owes me nothing. If VW made anything comparable now I might be interested, but they don't.
