Both used, I'll give you that, but both with maintenance records and a clean Car Fax.
Could just be my bad luck with cars in general. I was thinking about what I posted. Didn't mention that a buddy rolled the Tercel and the Prizm (my first car in HS) caught fire on the way home from school one day, but that was due to faulty wiring from a super sweet system I had someone else install. Other than that, they were all great.
That gen 1.8t is just prone to be problematic, or so I've been told by "VW guiz". Couple that with terrible electrical gremlins and you get one of the worst disdain for a vehicle make ever. I'm not saying others are/aren't reliable, but my experience has been absolutely awful.
...I should have never sold my Jeep.