The C15 represents a time when a vehicle was a tool. I feel vehicles want to turn into a subscription service these days. I still see these running in rural Spain and France, usually held together with wire and hope, clocking like what 400k+ km? The XUD diesel engines are practically unkillable. They have no ECU to brick, no adblue sensors to fail and put the car into limp mode and thankfully none of those DRM locked…
my father in law has a vw caddy (sdi). it has something like 120k in it even though it looks beaten up. i once told him I'm surprised. he told me that's 1.120.000km as the analog dial goes back to 0 after a million