sooo.. I just purchased VW #3 tonight.. Started with a 1987 Jetta (best car I ever owned and I was not smart to trade it in with 94K in 2001).. then I went to a 2001 Beetle GLS automatic (I get sick of all of the bad posts about those cars.. I drove mine almost to 100k with NO problems..probably didn't quite maintain it properly and never put a dime into the thing)... I totalled the Beetle about three weeks ago.. I just bought a 1999 Jetta GLS..Loaded.. 117K. The car drove better than my Beetle ever did on test drive.

Funny thing is.. EVERYONE complains about the power windows in this car.. and yes..even off the lot mine was making a wicked noise on the passenger side. It went up and down, but it wasn't happy about it. Needless to say, it'll be fixed.

I tried to look into other makes of cars... oh yes, the reliability of Toyota's and Honda's.. but they'll never drive the same. I'll deal with VW's quirks.. I'd be ashamed to not drive a Volkswagen.