I have VW since childhood and personally they are very good, safe, comfortable, good mechanics, fair price ..... We replaced a 2006 VW Jetta which had 137,000 miles on it. That had very few problems ...
We had a 2011 Tiguan top of the line model with no problems. Traded it in for a mid level model 2014 and now nothing but...although manageable it is still very annoying. It seems that Volkwagon does ...