![]() My 05 Scion xB1 was cool until it wasn't.What puzzle me most about the 24 SF is that Hyundai just recently adopted the 'cut jewel' styling on the Venue, Elantra, Sonata, 21-23 Santa Fe, Tucson, Santa Cruz, and Pallisade. SCE to AUX Sometimes blocky works (Telluride, Explorer, Suburban), and sometimes it doesn't (24 Santa Fe, Honda Element).I could hardly afford the $ and especially the TIME to take it to be fixed three times a year (or so it seemed).ANd the irony is I paid $2,000 (HUGE $ at that time!) for the 1975 in 1979, because of my impression that the Beetle was reliable (and thus all VWs), while I could have had a Pontiac LeMans coupe from 1972 for only $600 (its owner was a friend and scared me about it being in bad shape so I skipped it) My 1975 Dasher (Passat for you) Wagon manual, which I bought in 1979 with only 65k miles, and barely put another 12k till 1982, was a nightmare, both in frequency and cost of failures, especially to a modestly paid grad student Research Assistant at MIT (even tho I started at 90% RA and the vast majority only got 75% when I started there). I sure as hell will never get me another VW. ![]() So I am not surprised he gives VW the time of day.But leaving Tim aside, I am asking the RATIONAL among you: After half a century of DISMAL Unreliability, who, with a straight face, would take VW seriously any more?I could care less what they do. Tassos "It's better to lose your EYE than your good name" goes a (not chinese) Proverb.I know Tim has the major character fault to be attracted to the worst loser makers and present us the absolute worst used car deals.SCE to AUX "But sometimes you just need a car that will get you from point A to point B with no complications."With VW, that last word is the gotcha.Tassos Blocky is good for Cargo Vans and Family Wagons-Vans.Not for me. ![]()
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