Reaperman

If you think that Mexican-built cars are bad, try any Chinese or Communist-bloc car. They make the worst Mexico has to offer look like '60s GM, AMC, and Rover.

I have always loved the look, feel, and design of VWs.  But they get such awful reliability ratings / customer satisfaction ratings, it's tragic.

IIRC the GTIs all need some sort of expensive maintenance every 40ish K miles (some part that always, always goes bad no matter what you do).  It's what had me end up going Toyota / Scion for my last hatch.  But damn I would love a nice GTI someday.

125,000 miles on our Germexican 2012 Jetta TDI, and no complaints.  The car has been utterly bulletproof, with only a failed A/C compressor at 55,000 miles (covered under warranty) to mar its record.  In fairness to VW, they didn't make the compressor, so we just got the one bad one that came down the line that day.

@SlidellMan: speaking as someone who has owned Soviet- and Communist-bloc cars in the past (as well as a 1972 Rover P6), I would absolutely take one of those in a heartbeat over the garbage the Chinese motor industry is cranking out today.  It's appalling to see what China is getting away with selling in both their home and export markets.