 It drives, smell, looks like its Audi A4 cousin, and just as expensive to run and maintain.  It is a great running car, with very good handling characteristics, it has an absolute classic style that I think will never get old.  The interior although nice, is made of very poor quality.  At the expensive of soft touch and expensive looking coverings, all of that starts to degrade, crack and rub off over time.  There are rattles and squeaks happening that I notice does not happen on other cars of this year.  The car has great gas mileage, but then its off set by the 1.8 T requires premium gas.  It has great space for 5 and loads of head room.  It's a great European car if it wasn't for the unreliability, cost of ownership, and expensive fill-ups.  You could literally spend $1500 dollars on this car one month and in two months have another bill for 2K.  I've had my VW experience so this will probably be the last VW product I purchase, and there is more to life than spending money on fixing a car..lol  I rather bite the bullet and buy a Honda.