HELP I need a reliable used car

I'm really surprised that there isn't a class action suit over this and there may have been. A lot of post with "I have 80k and owe $14k on a brick"
I totally agree. I’ve talked to a few Audi and Volkswagen mechanics who know longer work for those dealerships. They say that Volkswagen basically put a Band-Aid on that fraud claim against them. Fixed these cars knowing that they were going to fail later. Now when they do fail they can just say, sorry we did our part