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Reference? A quick search brought up not much.

• mywittyname 10y ago
  VW aggressively cuts costs and reduces quality of their American products. The American Passat is different than the European Passat, we get the Euro Passat in the US as the CC. VW also massively decontented the Jetta a few years ago to better compete with the Japanese cars. Despite the car reviewer universally chastising VW for making their cars feel "cheap", Jetta sales skyrocketed. This is not just a VW thing. For the longest time Honda did the same thing: European Accord were sold in the US as Acuras while the US got it's own special Accord. This is probably due more to the high vehicle taxes and lower volumes of Europe than it is an inherent "cheapness" with Americans.