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Originally Posted by justjohn
Interesting. I have 2 friends with jettas, one with a golf, one with a passat. They all love their cars. The passat owner especially. Of course, he has the turbo and it's chipped so it has like 250 horsepower plus he likes to tinker anyway.
I heard Echos didn't sell that well, which I figured was part of the reason they were rare. I do know someone with an Echo who loves it as well though, so people just hanging on to theirs could definitely be a factor.
I think the hardest part is finding manuals period, actually. The whole market is down to 15% manual from what I understand.
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I'm also in the avoid-VW camp. They have certainly had some significant quality problems since the late 90's. I've had friends buy four VWs (all new from the dealer with gas engines) and every single one had major problems that ended up having the car traded in early or covered under Lemon laws.
There's a reason VW has been consistently at or near the bottom of the JD Powers dependability studies, year after year for the last decade.
http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/JD...11029-vdss.pdf
Looks like they are up a couple notches this year...