Q: VW reliability improvements over past several years
I am considering a lightly used 2016 Golf. From your experience, are VW's really that unreliable / expensive to fix? Have they gotten better over the past several years? What are the most common maintenance problems? Thanks!
My car has 6000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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