Even I am German and kind of proud about cars in general (declining my love though) I never wanted to own a Porsche (in terms of such cars i been more a Ferrari guy), VW is ok (they are my client so can not say something negative) but not my kind of car (especially their own gear mechanism striked me when I first drve VW Käfer and Golf).
Understand the American approach toward no maintenance cars such as Toyota - on the other hand i loved these American big car in the 1950ies/60ies movies. But ahrd to find a parking space.