Audi A3 or VW Golf IV
 

My girlfriend narrowed down her choice to these two cars. She's asking me which is a better car. I am not familiar with these cars... but know they look pretty nice. The Golf she wants is the previous generation "IV" with a CDI engine or 1.6. The A3 she would want would need to have an engine under 1.9. What have you guys heard about these cars? Reliable?

You know we have no clue about VW CDI engines stateside. We get the TDI versions here.

Hmm.. I forgot about that. I knew we had diesel golfs... but forgot that they were only TDI. Do we have A3's stateside? I don't think I have seen one.. but who knows.