Well I'm pretty happy.
In 2010 I bought a VW Jetta TDI (diesel) and have been very happy with it.
It was purchase for my daughter as her high school is roughly 25 miles/40 minutes drive each way. No bus service to the school so that meant driving every day, twice a day, and I didn't really want to take her/pick her up daily if she could drive.
So now she has had that car through 2 years of driving to high school, 4 years of college and almost 1 year of law school. 123,000 miles. Average fuel economy (city/hwy) is over 35mpg. And very reliable. So hard to complain.
Well VW got caught up in the "diesel gate" scandal where they fudged the data on how clean a "clean diesel" vehicle is and had to settle with the government on paying out customers.
Apparently the age/mileage of our vehicle is worth $5100 in settlement from them ... and I still get to keep the vehicle They did have the car for a "repair" which will apparently cost us about 1mpg in reduced fuel economy, but I'll take $5100.00 in cash and consider that a good trade!
In 2010 I bought a VW Jetta TDI (diesel) and have been very happy with it.
It was purchase for my daughter as her high school is roughly 25 miles/40 minutes drive each way. No bus service to the school so that meant driving every day, twice a day, and I didn't really want to take her/pick her up daily if she could drive.
So now she has had that car through 2 years of driving to high school, 4 years of college and almost 1 year of law school. 123,000 miles. Average fuel economy (city/hwy) is over 35mpg. And very reliable. So hard to complain.
Well VW got caught up in the "diesel gate" scandal where they fudged the data on how clean a "clean diesel" vehicle is and had to settle with the government on paying out customers.
Apparently the age/mileage of our vehicle is worth $5100 in settlement from them ... and I still get to keep the vehicle They did have the car for a "repair" which will apparently cost us about 1mpg in reduced fuel economy, but I'll take $5100.00 in cash and consider that a good trade!