I live in WA and we have the highest gas prices in the country right now. Diesel is even higher because the taxocrats here know they can tax diesel more with less repercussions.
I think the VW is a great car with German performance. I know what that is like - used to own a BMW 3 series with the factory motorsports package. A blast to drive in the Smoky Mountains on the windy mountain roads - not so much fun to drive on the rutted pavement from studded tires here.
When I talked to some friends who are mechanics and worked out the fuel/maintenance costs it did not make sense for me but YMMV. I have friends that own them and they have been pretty happy with them and I hope you like yours. We had a Toyota diesel when my folks were stationed in Germany and it was a solid car. The only diesel I currently own is a 5 cylinder 48hp Kubota although I would like to get a used F-350 for the farm.
Couldn’t agree more about about VW performance.
We leased a 2011 VW Golf 2.0L TDI with “Sports Package” here in Germany for my better half to drive while on my expat assignment. I hardly ever drive it as I have a company car, but recently got a chance to put a few thousand kilometers on it on our trip to Italy.
On the autobahn in Germany I cruised at 160-180kmh/99-111mph, even topping out at 217kmh/135mph just to see what she what could do. At passport control at the Swiss border I checked the average consumption on the display and it read 8.2 L/100km/28.69mpg. With the lower driving speeds in Switzerland and Italy it went up to 5.9 L/100km/39.87. Wow, what a great car. It makes it a bit more bearable to drive here in Europe when paying about 75 Euros/$95 to fill-up a VW Golf.
As it is a European Model you can switch all the digital displays to English, German, French and etc. However, one thing we laughed about on our trip was when we realized that the Bluetooth computer voice is in American English, but the GPS voice is British English.