We have the jazz And a polo, the jazz mainly for Mrs. LJ. Our present jazz is the Mk2 with cvt, which is excellent.
We previously had two Mk1s, both a bit troublesome.
The VW is mine, although this new polo with 1.2 TSI engine is terrific the engine is a gem pulling strongly from 1500 rpm all the way to 3500 rpm and is better on fuel than the jazz, In fact Mrs. LJ has started to use it now!!
My enthusiasm for VW started 52 years ago and I have owned 14 alltogether over this time with no major problems.
In fact the very first one gave the most trouble, the engine dropped a valve, which was a common occurance on the air cooled engines. I was otherwise very impressed with the build quality and stayed with VW after all.
I ran the VW transporter for my job in the heating trade and had really trouble free service, they stand up to all sorts of use and abuse. I have lost count of the number of times other lads phoned to say they cannt get to the job because either their vans either will not start or have broken down! I do not think a Honda vehicle of that type ( if they made one ) would stand up to the type of use our VWs had
Nice reving engines they have but the VW is the better all round product, in my humble opinion based on the above.