Even at the height of the 'Skoda Skip' joke era, I had more respect for them than most because I was rallying at the time and they were the team to beat in the 1300 class.
Mind you, just before my office closed down earlier in the year I spoke to a lot of people who still had company cars (I've opted out) and every one of them that had cars built by the VW group seemed to have had endless trouble with them and suffered from a dealer network that couldn't care less. I think it was about 10 people in all with a variety of both petrol and diesel cars...Golfs, Passats, Sharan, Leon, Alhambra etc...
The phrase "If everything was as reliable as a VW" became an office joke for things like the photocopier - which only worked every other tuesday if there was an R in the month
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