I have no idea what you ' re talking about . I ' m from central Europe and VW isn ' t the name of reliability . No , not a chance . People love them because their grandpa drove a Golf in the 80 s and it still runs . That ' s because you could replace a coolant pipe with a garden hose and it would work . So they think that new Volkswagens will run for 20 years , which is just stupid . I have a friend whose first car was a 2003 Audi A 4 2 . 5 TDI , and it made me mad when he told me how much money he spent on that car it drove well but maintenance was veeery expensive , everything broke , etc . . Next , he goes and buys a 2008 Passat 2 . 0 TDI with just over 180 k km on the counter . Injectors ~ 1000 for a new set , turbo another 1000 and the DPF possible to just remove this part luckily are all faulty , Dynaudio system falling apart quoted 800 for the replacement of two speakers , everything inside creaks and rattles priceless . I swear it ' s worse than the Audi .