I just bought a 2011 Volkswagen Passat. I love driving it!
The Passat NMS won the Motor Trend Car of the Year for 2012., it replaced the B6 in North America.  Good car.
Woah, I had no idea it was THAT good. Volkswagen seems to be really reliable these days. 
They are reliable, but they got a black eye with the emission scandal of 2015, when they cheated by programming a tool to make their diesels pass emissions testing.
Yikes...Mine is a 2011, did that apply to Passat's made after 2011?
. Volkswagen deployed this programming software in about eleven million cars worldwide, including 500,000 in the United States, in model years 2009 through 2015.
In 2014, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) had commissioned a study on emissions discrepancies between European and US models of vehicles from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), summing up the data from three different sources on 15 vehicles. Among them was a group of five scientists at West Virginia University, who detected additional emissions during live road tests on two out
"four-door coupé" variant of the Passat.
Volkswagen currently markets two variants of the Passat globally. In January 2011, Volkswagen announced that the new mid-size sedan (NMS) being built at the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant for the North American market would be named the Passat. Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive also manufactures the Passat NMS in its Nanjing factory. The NMS is sold in the North American, South Korean, Chinese, and Middle Eastern markets. The Volkswagen Passat NMS won the 2012 Motor Trend Car of