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Wow, you sure do read a lot into statements, don't you? No. What I'm saying is that my VW requires a lot less work and maintenence to keep it running that the brands of cars that I see my friends buying and driving. And for a long while, I was driving 70 miles a day over pot-holed roads with my VW. When learned how to fix cars by driving American cars. I've become rusty driving VWs because little things just don't keep breaking on them. Even though the car I'm driving is 9 years old and has over 100,000 miles on it, it's still solid. Are other car brands just as good? Sure. But plenty of other brands are not.

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Not to hijack this thread away from Macs (But I guess we've beat that horse good enough for now)...I was just kind of shocked to hear VWs just run.

Currently Europeen cars have a higher defect rate than Japanese and even US made cars. There are a few good reasons for this and maybe you're referring to an older VW, so that would make sense. But the newer Europeen cars have issues because they started putting in all the fancy gagedtry and have had issues with version 1.0 products (just like Mac and windows...hey see it relates).