Vw golf faq?

The most common critism on the current Passat (as well as golf 5) is that the interior quality and finish isn't as good as the previous model. The reduction in interior quality is deliberate, this is the result of a problem within the VW Audi group with Golf 4 and the B5.5 Passat having the same quality interior as the more upmarket and more expensive Audi A3 and A4 models, with which they shared platforms.