[RWebb]

Is it just the low cost? Maybe not, as the Japanese make cars at or below the same price points that can run a long time.

Of course, all cars have problems, but when you fix a MB, BMW, or Porsche, it stays fixed. Not so with VW. (Obviously, this is not true of the hapless Audi either.)

Now, I realize that many of started out on (and often, under) a VW, so the mark (who uses marque anymore) holds a special emotional appeal in our limbic systems. But move on up the brainstem and tell me... WHY do VW's suck?