As Golfs are being discussed..never owned a VAG product, rarely ever drive them tbh, a few company cars but one overriding memory was 90s Golf Rabbit. God I hated driving it, clutch was really heavy, accelerator felt like there was resistance behind it...It was awful and with hindsight, I do wonder if it had something like a pedal box fault ?
Cars are funny things, I'd never entertained a German cars (or any other European car generally speaking)..nah, not interested, no chance. No logic, just some inner bias or whatever, who knows ?
Current car is Japanese (proper Japanese) and it suspect i will stick with them now...although the Tiguan or Kodiaq keep popping into my head for their massive usability benefits