gearheadgrrrl
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2002
- Location
- Buffalo Ridge (southwest Minnesota)
- TDI
- '15 Golf DSG, '13 JSW DSG surrendered to VW, '03 Golf 2 door manual
'Twas paging through the december issue of CR at the library yesterday and starting on page 60 they had graphs of the various new cars predicted reliability. Now I hadn't seen the data broken down like this online, so I studied it intently, being as I'm in the market for a new one and debating between the current A6s and the coming A7s, with an outside chance of acquiring a Passat instead. The data is presented in bar graph form, so I dug out my little ruler and measured as best I can, and all these numbers are percentages of unreliability above (+) or below (-) that of the average new car.
Golf TDI: +15%
JSW TDI: +10%
Jetta TDI: -5%
Passat TDI: -20%
Hmmm... I could argue that German assembly quality is showing, but IIRC the JSW is built in the same mexican plant as the Jetta. Looking for more data, I looked at the results for the gas versions of these cars.
Golf gas: +35%
GTI gas: -55%
JSW gas: +20%
Jetta gas: +5%
Passat gas: no data
The relationships are pretty similar for the gassers, with the exception of the Golf beating the JSW by a bit wider margin. But the GTI is an outlier- Is the turbo TSI engine that unreliable?
After preliminary digesting of these stats, I'm tempted to believe that German assembly does yield a better product, and maybe I should grab an A6 Golf TDI before as A7 production will be moved to Mexico. Then again, the Mexican built JSW barely trails the German built Golf. Or is their a problem with the A6 Jetta sedan, being that it's recently evolved away from the Golf and JSW?
Discuss...
Golf TDI: +15%
JSW TDI: +10%
Jetta TDI: -5%
Passat TDI: -20%
Hmmm... I could argue that German assembly quality is showing, but IIRC the JSW is built in the same mexican plant as the Jetta. Looking for more data, I looked at the results for the gas versions of these cars.
Golf gas: +35%
GTI gas: -55%
JSW gas: +20%
Jetta gas: +5%
Passat gas: no data
The relationships are pretty similar for the gassers, with the exception of the Golf beating the JSW by a bit wider margin. But the GTI is an outlier- Is the turbo TSI engine that unreliable?
After preliminary digesting of these stats, I'm tempted to believe that German assembly does yield a better product, and maybe I should grab an A6 Golf TDI before as A7 production will be moved to Mexico. Then again, the Mexican built JSW barely trails the German built Golf. Or is their a problem with the A6 Jetta sedan, being that it's recently evolved away from the Golf and JSW?
Discuss...