The Volkswagen Jetta sedan is perfect for car for families with parents and two or three kids. It鈥檚 a compact car, so it鈥檚 not too big, but the Jetta is larger than other compact sedans (Corolla, Civic, Sentra, etc.). Your family will be comfortable inside it, but it won鈥檛 take up a lot of room either. Priced at less than 11K, the Jetta is also ideal for a single person looking for an affordable car. The Jetta is the 2nd smallest Volkswagen brand sold in the United States (behind the Rabbit). Like most compact sedans, the Jetta has an excellent reputation. The 2006 Jetta is the first 5th generation Jetta Jetta model. 鈥淎 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine powers the standard models and it's pleasantly robust, with a broad power curve and a raspy sound. The new Jetta is larger than previous models, and it features a more spacious interior stuffed with convenience and lavished with Volkswagen's legendary attention to detail. Even the least-expensive model offers an elegant, high-quality cabin. Its driver enjoys excellent visibility and ease of use with logical controls and instruments. Build quality is superb inside and out. 鈥淭he all-new Volkswagen Jetta is a delectable dish of European-bred automotive technology, superior materials and tangibly good build quality. This new Jetta is both a comfortable long-range cruiser and a snappy runabout.
Even the ride and handling were familiar to me. Handling is very competent and even in wagon form it is a very tossable car, for a front wheel drive car with a relatively heavy engine sitting up front it feels surprisingly balanced. Drivetrain: 140 HP and 235 ft/lb torque. Not exactly a barn burner but with a 0-60 in the mid 9 second range it is entirely competent, its mainly highway passing where I miss the brute power of the 3.5 V6 from my E350. Lower speeds and around town is where the TDI shines with the strong torque right off idle. CPO program has been flexed for TDI vehicles. 9 year old 2011 is CPO. Now to the bad. 1 year) which we all know non-use can create its own set of issues so if you decide to look I would strongly suggest going CPO route and check the tires over well. Large part of my satisfaction is the deal that these can be had at. 22k OTD we got two very gently used Jetta Sportwagens that are covered for 2 years bumper to bumper and 4/48 emissions warranty.
The 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid gives VW something it hasn鈥檛 had before: a way to appeal to hybrid buyers who won鈥檛 consider its TDI diesels鈥攏o matter how fuel-efficient they may be. The result is a relatively sporty, conventional looking compact sedan that鈥檚 fun to drive, comfortable to ride in, and appears to return 40 mpg or more in mixed usage. On two different legs of our road test around Santa Fe, New Mexico, our Jetta Hybrid test cars returned 45.2 mpg and 41.7 mpg over hilly routes of 71 and 150 miles. One note on those gas mileage numbers: We鈥檙e reserving some judgment until we have a chance to test the car on our usual test cycle. Volkswagen projects that the 2013 Jetta Hybrid will be EPA-rated at about 45 mpg in combined city-highway use. The Santa Fe test routes had several sharp climbs to higher altitudes, followed by a large number of gradual downhill roads.
On those roads, the Jetta Hybrid could glide solely on electric power with the engine switched off鈥攁s high as 60 mph鈥攚hich used no fuel over those stretches. To launch its first mass-market hybrid model, Volkswagen put a new powertrain into its three-year-old Jetta sedan. The hybrid Jetta uses a 150-horsepower turbocharged 1.4-liter four-cylinder, one that hasn't been offered in any VW sold here until now. It鈥檚 paired to a single 20-kilowatt (27-hp) electric motor, with a clutch on either end, and Volkswagen鈥檚 7-speed direct-shift gearbox automated manual transmission. Output of the combined gasoline-electric powertrain is 170 hp. While the 20-kW electric motor is smaller than the 33-kW traction motor in the Toyota Prius hybrid, it nonetheless puts out 114 lb-ft of torque by itself. That鈥檚 enough to accelerate the car away from a stop with a light foot on the accelerator, up to speeds as high as 37 mph. But Volkswagen has done its homework in figuring out what many hybrid buyers actually want: all-electric range.
The car鈥檚 stated electric range is up to 1.2 miles under ideal circumstances, but VW lets drivers opt for all-electric power by pushing the 鈥淓-Mode鈥?button on the console. That locks the gasoline engine out altogether, though it compromises acceleration, and raises the all-electric top speed of the hybrid Jetta. As long as the car stays below 44 mph, driving in E-Mode keeps the car running only electrically until the 1.1-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack is depleted. VW engineers stressed that E-Mode is not the most energy-efficient way to cover miles, overall. At times, using the engine to move the car and recharge the battery conserves more energy. But most hybrid drivers like all-electric travel, and VW has given them the ability to call it up as often as they want below 44 mph, within the limits of the battery. On-the-road performance is sporty, with acceleration that's both quicker and more linear than a Toyota Prius.
