Sam,
What are you planning to do with it? The Golf is small by US standards. I had a VR6 and subsequently learned deep respect for the Passat 4-Motion, either the W8 or the standard V6. Every year the dealer asks me to trade mine in. Every year, I cannot think of a reason why I'd want to do that. That's not something I ever experienced before.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1