Originally Posted by ritz
Well it's not a GTI, but my girlfriend has an 04 2.0 Golf. We've driven it to Florida and back and pretty much all the time. Never had one problem. I've heard that VW's have "cheap interior" well our 8 month old (85 lb) Rottweiler decided to chase a cat while she was inside the car, ran into a whole bunch of shit and the only damage she did was popped a plastic hole filler off that popped right back in place.
VW's

I was thinking of getting one, but I got a TA instead.
Cheap interior? I love my leather wrapped 3 spoke steering wheel, heated black leather sport seats, leather wrapped shift knob and boot, etc.
Stay away from the velour interior. That's all I can say. Some of the lower end models have a problem with the interior coating on some of the things like the control area on the door panels peeling, and things like that, but I wouldn't say the interior feels cheap. I haven't had any peeling in either of my mk4's