For me the affordable german car, is something ironic for me...
Affordable german cars, are only some VWs like base golf, base passat, fox, jetta/bora, and polo...
I have many complains about german car maker policies. A base 316 (E46) costed (before the E90 came) 30.500eur and had only 115HP. then came a loaded one with 35.000 eur but still had only 115HP. and then was the 318i (2.0l) with 150HP. It came only in base and costed 35.800 eur and it didn't have an Radio-CD, it came with steel wheels and staff like that...