2006 Volkswagen Passat 2.0T (Video Clip)

The People's car company has been all over the map these past few years. From acquiring Bentley to creating one of the most successful Le Mans cars, the Audi R8, Volkswagen is moving forward, albeit with difficulty. Most recently, they introduced a $100,000 Sedan with a VW logo and finally launched the World's fastest production car, the Bugatti Veyron. When looking at this list of achievements, one would never believe that Volkswagen AG is in dire straights. Sales have been plummeting because of the enormously long life cycles of the vehicles (think 1999 to 2006 for the Golf) and their very spotty reliability record. There was a time not so long ago when Volkswagen was the champion of economical, simple fun cars to drive that were reasonably trouble free.