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I understand your point, but have you driven a VW in the past decade? They are reliable, relatively easy to repair and have comfortable interiors that aren't with "hard plastic." Perhaps you've confused VW with Ford?
Ford is even worse than VW, but VW is overpriced shit.
No doubt they are all overpriced, but I thoroughly researched my Škoda before buying it in 2020 and it was competitively priced, especially with its reliability score and relatively low maintenance cost. In my case of course anecdotal, but I've had no issues after 90,000 km with a lot of Autobahn.
I'll just put it this way if you check the used market for pretty much any European car in the states you can get them very cheap compared to their original price because no one wants to fix them. That is by design imo