Does VW make a quality car?
VW quality has been a major concern over the last decade. By all accounts, the vehicles manufactured in VW’s ill-fated (and now closed) US production facility were of poor quality. Build quality didn’t improve much when production was first moved to the Puebla facility. VW appears to have turned the corner in the mid 1990s, and by 1997 they were producing at least as good quality of car as most Asian imports. VW has been cranking up the publicity machine to tout recent improvements at the Puebla plant, and the build quality of the NB appears to be quite high. A check of the cars claimed under Florida’s lemon law shows that 73 VWs were repurchased by the manufacturer in the 1990s, comparable to both BMW and Mercedes Benz.
