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Originally Posted by Fuseli
while Japanese cars may be more reliable, they are certainly not more fun to drive, toyotas are wonderful cars, but ever driven one? look how boring your moms honda civic is to drive, they're about as bad as that. Numb, dull, i'll take my quirky German car over a boring Japanese car any day...
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Actually, my impression of the fit/finish/quality of our 2000 Beetle can be summed up as "rattle-trap". It doesn't feel like a solid quality car - never mind all the little niggling things that keep breaking. My wife, who is certainly no car person, rode in a friend's Alero one day and although she (rightfully) thinks its one boring ride, she commented on how much more solid and better put together it felt riding in it compared to the Beetle.
From what I've heard, this is where the new Jetta excels - in feeling more like the sort of money you're spending on it. Which is great - but the styling is fairly blah - and I don't want to bring up the whole Corolla-look-alike controversy again, but it really does look very Japanese-ish in styling.
Everything VW does just makes it more and more obvious that have no real strategic vision or direction and hopefully this latest change will finally get them on the right path.