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Volkswagen needs to get it's scheize together. I have a '97 Jetta that I bought two years ago with 80,000 miles. Within the first three months of ownership I spent $2200 on repairs! The engine blew an oil seal and lost all the oil, the heater core BLEW UP in traffic, the electric engine cooling fans died....

VW's are basically plastic crap. Very nice driving plastic crap...but plastic crap nonetheless. I like VW cars, and I will consider one in the future, but listen: after this latest experience with this Jetta...I will pay a LOT of attention to Consumer Reports magazine. They rate the Toureg as probably the WORST car that Volkswagen has ever built! That doesn't make total sense. VW built a plant in Pennsylvania and started making Rabbits in 1980; almost immediately the quality dropped. No rust problems, but the cars weren't as good as the real Rabbits [Mk 1 Golf] from Germany. Eventually VW sold the plant to Chrysler, and opened a plant in Quebla, Mexico. From 1988 on, the Jetta's that this place produced were ATTROCIOUS! Peeling paint, doors that didn't work, ceiling panels that fell down... the cars were terrible! On a par with a typical American car. Not a good German car-

Touregs are produced in Leipzig, Germany. This is East Germany, but the factory is the place that produced the Carrera GT. And it is the place where the Cayenne is produced, along with the Audi Q7 SUV. I don't think there is a problem with morale or motivation among the workers at this plant; yet the Cayenne and Q7 don't seem to have the same quality control problems.

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