Sam, Clearly you aren't one of those who feel a need to tradeup your car every 2 years. So there is something I promise you about VWs: they last. And last. Same goes for Audi and Skoda... not sure whether you get Skoda in the US? All 3 are part of the VW stable, anyway.
"... 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
