 This is the worst car I have ever owned.  It has had multiple problems: a noisy catalytic converter (a rattle), the electronic door locks and truck opener quit working, and I couldn't even open the gas filler door to put in gas.  The real shocker was that the car caught fire as I was driving it!  That cost $7,000 to repair.  I did not fix it, but instead sold it to a junkyard because the local dealer had a monopoly (no other VW dealers where I live and no one else would work on it) I had some high repair bills.   This was supposed to be an "economy" car, but overall the repairs cost me as much as a Hummer to drive.  There is no way the fuel economy of the VW could make up for the repair bills.  