What, exactly, constitutes having a dog in the fight, as I've seen multiple times in this thread? I, for one, would buy a Sportwagen so fast it would make your head spin, were it not for my serious concerns that after the HPFP locks up, my wife or kids might lose three toes to frostbite before they're rescued. And then to find a potential no-warranty coverage as icing on the cake? My dog in the fight is that I am putting a huge amount of fuel into my dead-reliable E-350 van while I continue to look for a decent, reliable wagon to replace it for 90% of my driving. My dog in the fight is not buying a car that would otherwise perfectly fit my needs, while waiting for the next generation (2013? 2014?), only to find that VW no longer wants to sell a station wagon in the USA like Volvo, Subaru, Audi, Ford, and others. Or that TDIs are no longer worth the trouble in the US to Volkswagen.
If I end up spending $38,000 on a BMW 3-series wagon because it is the only other wagon in the United States with a manual transmission, when all I really wanted/needed was a $26,000 TDI wagon, then I consider myself as having a dog in the fight. Sorry for the rant, but I don't think that the only people with a dog in the fight are those who own the subject TDI models. I never owned an Oldsmobile diesel in the 1980's, but it has affected the diesel car market in the United States irrevocably. If Volkswagen cements the diesel image as ticking time bomb, I think every person who owns or would potentially own a diesel car in the future has a dog in the fight.