I Bought Volkswagen’s Most Overcomplicated Car For Just $2,000. Here’s Everything That’s Broken

Someone once told me that I probably have Stockholm syndrome for Ferdinand Piëch-era Volkswagens. They keep breaking on me and costing me money, yet I keep running back to them and asking for more. I want to tell that person that they’re wrong, but my latest purchase seems to betray that notion. I just picked up the cheapest running and driving Volkswagen Phaeton in America, proving I haven’t learned my lesson from the last Phaeton I owned. And just like the last Phaeton…