This car was fantastic when I first purchased it (new in 1988).  I paid over $13,000 at the time which was bad enough, but the next year VW decided to drop the selling prices of the new models to $8,500.  Overall the car was a champ, but I abused the heck out of it.  It could easily attain the top speed on the odometer (120 mph) and did so once that I know of.  The main drawback was that the tires were narrow and the car was very light, thus in the rain at speed the vehicle tended to brake long.  It was wrecked once and suffered many ailments thereafter including a persistent incurable window leak.