Tell ya what... talk to me when whatever it is you are driving at the present time gets past 424,000 miles... (or even 300,000 miles... every one of my last 4 VW's had over that amount when I let them go. Gave one to my son. He drove it at least another 100,000 miles and probably would still be driving it if some idiot hadn't run a stop sign and T-boned him in the passenger door...) And by the way, I just changed the (original) clutch in my current VW 2000 miles ago.. (that would be 422,000 miles on the original clutch..)
Oh, and 46 mpg and enough guts to tromp those silly Civics with that stupid muffler while leaving then in a cloud of diesel particulates is just downright fun...
Maybe my car can't read consumption reports...
I’ll stick with Toyotas, no V-dubs for me, thanx anyway.