I'm surprised and disappointed that the Golf made it onto the list.
Reliability should be taken into account. My golf has left me stranded on the side of the road six times in 50k. Fuel pump, fuel pump controller, injectors and catalytic converter.
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Ha... those of you swearing the Golf is the best thing ever will be sorry. Just wait til it's out of warranty and you're never out of the mechanics and have the RACV on speed dial.
Best thing I ever did was sell that hunk of junk to some other poor sod. I couldn't even trade it in as it played up... who needs to accelerate AND use the indicators at the same time anyway???
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The Golf turns into a piece of junk around the same time as the warranty expires. Constant expensive failures, and an underlying manufacturing (poor quality engine casting according to a VW mechanic) that rears its ugly head so conveniently after the warranty is gone.
Australians would expect that a new car would last some time after the warranty period, but not the VW Golf. It's heartbreaking to see much cheaper cars of the same vintage still giving their owners trouble free motoring long after your crappy VW Golf is sold off to some poor sod.
