Yes, you can sure find some really great cars in VW AG's line up.
But the brand VW doesnt have a whole bunch. The CC is nice, the GTI is cool, but the rest of the cars are just nice cars, tend to be pricy and are a pita to work on.
Now, expand out of VW brand and into Audi, and I cant find a car I WOULDNT want.
Lambo, Bugatti and Porsche are pretty exclusive brands, where only the Bugatti shares any noticable parts from the mother ship, the W16 quad turbo engine. Everything else is pretty much left off.
3 years ago, GM owned a large chunk of Fiat, which owns Alfa and Ferrari. Not to mention a controling interset in Fuji Heavy Industries which owns Subaru.
VW is a german brand, and like everything German they execute things well. Its the way and how they do it thas the problem. Usually with 3x more stuff, 2x more complicated, and 5x likely to break down.
And thats how this..
Beat this
At least quality wise...
Now im not going to say that the Cobalt is a better car then the Golf, no way. But the Astra, at least the REAL Euro one, is. The one we get/got was a bit neuterd and stripped of a the fun things.