Vehicle report
2015 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF SPORTWAGEN
This model year
What the record shows
The 2015 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen is a small station wagon, and the 3rd model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 2013 to 2020.
The EPA rated four configurations: engines from 1.8-litre four-cylinder to 2-litre four-cylinder, front-wheel drive only, four transmissions and running on diesel and regular gasoline.
Combined fuel economy ranges from 28 to 35 mpg depending on which one you have.
The federal record holds 59 owner complaints, 3 safety recalls and 673 service bulletins for it.
Counts are reports, not rates. A complaint is something an owner chose to file; it is unverified and unadjusted for how many of these cars were sold, so the useful comparison is against other model years of the same car. Recalls and investigations carry more weight because a manufacturer or regulator acted on them.
Reading this report
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.