On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:55:13 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 9/24/2015 11:59 AM, bob haller wrote:
On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 11:39:02 AM UTC-4, leza wang wrote:
Sorry for off topic
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Hi

A friend of mine who is a senior citizen and want to buy a new car to replace her standard old car. She is very good driver with very clean driving history. Her current car is Volkswagen golf. She is thinking of buying a new Volkswagen golf but automatic of course (easier to drive). Do you have any other recommendation on which car (brand name) she should consider. Too many options and technologies are not really required, just basic stuff but most be automatic.

Thank you in advance.

avoid any VW vehicle their resale value will probably take a big hit for a generation.

besides all auto makers need to watch vw go nearly out of business so they dont try to pull stuff like cheating on air pollution


VW may be the best buy at the right price. Depending on the buyers age,
resale may be meaningless. If the car is never sold, who cares?

Good chance it can be had a a large discount just to move it.
It takes a large discount to get a VW into the price range of a lot
of it's competition. My friend bought his Corolla S, loaded to the
gills, for $8000 less than a base VW Golf TDI.
That surprized him as much as the fact that the Toyota was in just
about all ways, at least the match for the VW. The only thing he
missed was the torque of the Diesel.