http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYWqqgr7Wcg
http://blogs.consumerreports.o.....rakes.html

mynrma.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/mynrma/hs.xsl/brand_reliability.htm?cpssessionid=SID-3F5768EC-0E01D207

“The figures confirm similar surveys overseas, which have shown that US- and European-built cars largely lag behind Korean and Japanese cars on quality…. for example, some Volkswagen models recorded a higher than average number of actual faults but figures”

drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=39115&IsPgd=0

“VW has slipped in the European JD Powers initial quality ratings to 34 out of 37 manufacturers ”

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060623131602AAWoBrf

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Toyota rules, Volkswagen should go back to producing hippie kombi buses and volkswagen beetles for mexico. Enuff said

Johno –
I agree, some cars are just cooler, despite power/prestige/build.

RAV4 > Touran/Sharan
GTI > Camry
etc..

The winner will be the one with the cooler, more enjoyable/drivable car.

(P.S. i’m the one in the blue mk1 golf cabriolet on Sundays > toyotas)

I can take the wanky dealers but not when the price is ridiculous for what is essentially a hatch.

For the record, they wanted 55,000 for a Red GTI with leather and sunroof which will come in 4 months. No freaking way mate.

volkswagen are trying to catch up to toyota’s reliability and profitability, toyota is trying to catchup to volkswagen’s design, drivability and perhaps desirability.

In a sustainability view point i hope both manufacturers will be using the best possible environmental ethics while trying to dominate the auto industry.

By the way, chinese buy more volkswagens over toyotas because they generally still prefer not to buy japanese stuff because of dark historical rivalry, which is ironically quite the opposite in australia, considering australia’s dark past in WW2 with japan, maybe us auzys get over things more quickly or something. By the way, in auz toyota brainwash’s people with advertising everywhere, they are very determined to convince us we should buy a new toyota every three years, that equals mass consumerism, that equals arrogance and taking things for granted!

Sorry to seem like a hysterical hippy but they are the facts, like it or not!

Post script, i personally think honda or even mazda have a better chance at catching up to toyota in the a to b vehicle category, because that is the category volkswagen should be counting. Even i think that and i myself own a newish volkswagen and not a honda or mazda. I think volkswagen should firstly try to catchup to the benchmark honda in terms of fit and finnish and reliability before even thinking of catching up to toyota.

Vw’s products are not streamlined enough and they have alot of brands.

20 Models are easy to pick some are variants of refreshed or new models :p

NSF (up! cars)
NF Gol/Saveiro/Parati/NF Sedan
Golf VI
Jetta VI
Polo Cabriolet
Polo Van like Roomster
Polo Crossover like Skoda’s Yeti
Touran II
Sharan II
Tiguan
Scirocco (and I bet a Roadster version too)
RPU (HiLux/Navara competitor) with a Pathfinder variant possiblity.

You also have to remember that they want to be where Toyota are now, 10 years from now. I’m pretty sure Toyota won’t sit back and relax for the next 10 years.

Better looking vw\’s, ok some [very few actually]

Better built vw’s, it will not happen, Mexico, South-Africa, China built rubbish IS worse quality than Aussie built Toyotas, LIGHTYEARS behicnd the Japper built stuff.

Make more $$ than BigT, it will NEVER happen full stop.

BigT are to strong in big markets like USA, Japan, and growing in Europe at a alarming rate [inc. germany]vw is dreaming…..

Cheers

F-0

Alfa Romeo on the other hand sends their best to Australia because its a market theyre trying to improve on. I get these facts from manager at city RD BMW, and my cousin who works for FIAT in Turin.

The Golf GTI is made in Italy so its better than the standard Golf.