![]() 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.
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