I look at VW cars as 50/50. Half of them have run great and never have problems and half of them break down and leave the driver stranded. I know relatives, friends and co-workers that have owned VW's and it truly was split on the results. The worst of them ended up with lemon law cases. So I would drop that down on the list. My mom has had quite a few Dodge cars and she always has some form of major problem with them so I would drop that down as well. The only problem with the WRX is a couple people I know managed to wrap them around trees thinking they could do anything they wanted with them and you can't in bad weather. So that's not a problem with the car, but driver error.
I would lean towards the WRX.