The diesel Passat is a lot bigger (though I love the Cruze, it's about my favorite rental car).
There was a report earlier that VW may have to end up buying back about 150,000 cars in the US. The fix that they have developed would be more expensive to implement than simply buying the cars back from their owners at fair market value.
A Passat is just a puffy Jetta with a million weird electrical gremlins.
