[Eureka]

In 2011 a young woman driving a Golf was killed when, after overtaking a truck on the Monash freeway, her car slowed suddenly and was hit by the truck.  The coroner is investigating. 

The Age newspaper recently published the story and has since been contacted by lots of very unhappy VW owners.
Yesterday (or Monday?) The Age was saying that VW had pulled their advertising from The Age. 

I have heard of reliability problems with the DSG transmission, but this loss of power that people are complaining about would be a big worry.

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/too-scared-to-drive-her-beloved-vw-polo-20130604-2noa9.html

[Dazzler]

Wow! Bit like the old Toyota problem in reverse! If you get my drift...

[Just Rick]

other than those problems,just on their advertising campaign over here at the moment I would not buy any of their products on principal,just for a simple 5 second fopar in one of their adds

[Doggie 1]

Wow! Bit like the old Toyota problem in reverse! If you get my drift...

Yes, I thought that too.

[FatBoy]

Apparently it's not just the DSG that are losing power, but some manuals as well.  Doesn't look good for resale value of the VW.  I might be able to pick up a cheap GTI?

[The Gonz]

... I might be able to pick up a cheap GTI?

... but would you want to?

[FatBoy]

Depends on the price.  Risk management, Gonz, risk management.

[The Gonz]

Risk management, Gonz, risk management.

Aw, hell, the Engineer tells you 'catastrophic', you say 'hand it over'.

[murrakami]

This makes me wonder whether VW's DSG has a design flaw or a faulty part.