just thought i would shoot that question out there. i am a saab mechanic that used to work with a bunch of vw techs and touregs came in the shop with multiple, difficult problems like there was no tomorrow. we had people dropping them off at the shop with big letters on the windows stating what a hunk of crud it was, they hate it and that vw wont buy it back. are they really that junky? too bad, cause they look cool.