Volkswagon went for power for the north American marketplace. I expect the model that gets close to a hundred miles per gallon. Probably on the imperial gallon.


Why no attempt to market them here? While plenty were marketed in Europe. My 1985 and 1986 turbo diesels where adequate enough with the manual transmissions. Plus easy and cheap to repair and fairly durable.


Today even if you save some on fuel milage. As repairs are needed. They tend to be expensive. Rapidly displacing any money saved on fuel. There are cars that are more or less trouble free over the period of ownership. In general Volkswagon usually is not one of them.


Some Volkswagons do well and some much less so. When things go wrong with them they tend to be very expensive to rectify. On a cost per mile basis with long term ownership. The better Japanese cars do far better.