If you must buy one get one with the wet clutch instead of the dry clutch.

The company I was attached with had a fleet of VWs for its pool cars, included were the Golf TSI, Tiguan and Passat as well as several Polos.

The Tiguan was very reliable and it had the same engine as the Golf GTI and was told it was a wet clutch DSG. One of the Golfs when it was 3 years old had its engine replaced and was off the road for 4 months. Another of the Golf had its engine and clutchpack replaced at 3 years as well but the company had to top up close to RM2,000 as the engine VW provided but labor we had to pay half. 8 months later the same car needed a new engine again.

The other thing with it that is expensive are the ABS and wheel speed sensors.

I'm quite thankful that company choose to buy VWs for the pool fleet as not long after having my first child I was involved in an accident in a VW Passat, was hit by a Honda City that did not know how to use a roundabout. I walked away from the crash without any injury whatsoever.