I was not impressed by VW's build quality. Our old Passat had more rattles, squeaks and creaks from the interior than I could count. I gave up trying to fix them years ago. It didn't help that our turbo blew at 56k miles to the tune of $2k either.

Even still, I was actually considering buying one of the new Passat wagons, until I test drove it back to back with an X3.