An observation of what they do best.

The People's Car, a socialist creation for the transportation of the masses. Decades devoted to engineering and producing simple, reliable transportation, quite successfully, I might add. Along comes Marketing, creating a 'need' for more creature comforts. No decades of engineering skill to back this up. End result? Broken sunroofs, power windows, power locks and other malfunctioning 'comforts'.

Has VW strayed too far from their pasture? They seem to have retained their core competencies in that they still produce a nearly bullet-proof basic vehicle; if it weren't for this, they would have been in trouble long ago. It's lucky for VW that people's eyes are bigger than their wallets (most often their credit rating) and they end up with GL models with fewer options meaning the car is closer to VW's original core ethic of simple, reasonably well built conveyances.

Personal observation: I bought a 1998 Jetta TDI, new, and several friends that rode in it were pleased enough with it's general performance to go buy a VW of their own. TO each one I itereated and re-iterated the warning to get as few options as possible. Every one that bought one with power windows and automatic transmission has been back to the dealer several times for problems with both and other things. What number of complaints do you see in here about the basic cars malfunctioning? Coil packs excluded, hey, it was an outside supplier issue, stuff happens.

--TW If you want an Audi, buy an Audi.

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At my local dealership, in the new "Marketplace" motif, they have some of the old DDB ads ("Lemon," "Funeral," etc.). "Lemon" tells the story of a Beetle that wasn't loaded on the boat because of a blemish on the chrome strip on the glovebox. Granted, it's advertising, but would that that was the biggest problem I ever had with my VWs....

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