I bought an 07 accord diesel tourer for £3900 plus a 52 plate golf GTTdi with no oil in the gearbox
Its a great car, no more boring than a passat, infact a bit sharper id say.
Has ALL of the toys too, literally everything, something like £37K when new, 4 years straight from lease.
Had the manifold replaced FOC by Honda, have the callipers to sort out at the rear, but otherwise look at honest Johns for a list of problems with the equivalent passat, it runs into pages as oppose to about 6 things with the accord.
All of the passats i was interested in at the time were either on 3 owners in 4 years, in the garage getting their park brake fixed or strangely had no repair paperwork with them at all, as if everything had been disposed of