Volkswagen Jetta test drive since 2005 sedan

If you were alone in the world ...

When you have the opportunity to grab this car, you will probably share my opinion: today she is the best sedan in golf class.
 



I want to be a column nobleman
Shame! Unprofessionalism ... From twenty steps, I still can’t find Jetta intended for me in a slender line. Or maybe she is not here at all? As a schoolboy who has learned to distinguish between automobile emblems, but only guesses in addition to brands are models, I have to solve the problem, reading the nameplate.
 

Yeah! Here she is the second on the right. But mercy, those that stand nearby and bear the proud name of the winds walking over the oceans in the tropical latitudes of the wind, are similar to it like two drops of water. Rather, it looks like them. The language will not turn to call it with a low -command one. As if the former simpleton went to the gold fish for a session and really turned to a pillar noblewoman. Massive food with lush hips of wings, a long, low rear overhang, frivolous optics with white lenses, interspersed into large rubies of the rear lights, everything is like a Passat. So now the sedans of Volkswagen Golf and the middle class from the stern are twin brothers. The only difference is a slightly different shape of the rear side windows. Or maybe you distinguish that the youngest by 46 mm is already 13 mm lower?

Of course, Bora used to be disguised as an older brother. But it did not reach such an open imitation. Well, even though from the face who is who is easier to determine by the headlights, what they borrowed from the golf. But the chrome grate of the radiator a la Passat was still added between the family-fried eyes.

To whom this is a similarity, I think, you do not need to explain. In the eyes of the majority, the owner of Jetta is the owner of a solid and large sedan. So, after all, it is really wider and longer than even the largest classmates of Megan, Mazda-3, S40. What are classmates, a new Volkswagen several centimeters longer than C-class and BMW treshki!
 



Before setting on the road
A large sedan a priori implies difficulties in close parking. And I immediately received them. In poor visibility, not only massive head restraints were to blame back. It is impossible to determine from the driver's place where the trunk lid ends. So back to Jett without parking sensors, that the fighter is blinding blindly.
 

Everything else in the cabin is beyond praise. The front seats are so just lovely. The lateral support is such that you do not notice how the mood appears in the soul in a sports way. Valiki pillows and backs in any quick turn will be kept. Plus, the abundance of steering wheel adjustments, verified pedal efforts, where you need located and clearly working switches-chuckles. Add to this a noble finish and equipment, which was five years ago only for a business class: ABS, an anti-wings system, half a dozen pillows, heated front chairs and glass gunner nozzles, an electric package ...

 
   
For $ 199, air conditioning will be replaced with a 2-zone climate control, and to eight speakers for $ 176 will be added to the CD Magnetol

Blue backlight and medium -sized digitization do not interfere with excellent readability of devices

Capacious glove box inside a noble velvet


By the way, to make Jett as practical as possible, the Germans made a lot of effort. For example, I do not remember another sedan, in which, in addition to the posterior split back, the back of the front chair could also fold. Those who wish can use Jetta and as a staff. A wide and rather high rear doorway predetermined a convenient landing. And even if the driver’s growth is two meters, behind him you can’t prop up the arm of the chair with your knees.

 
   
Due to the enlarged wheelbase, the legs for the legs is as much as 65 mm more than in the bore

For the rear passengers, cup holders are provided

In the pockets of the doors there is a place for bottles or cans


In a word, I had not yet had time to drive hundreds of meters, but I had already unshakably believed that I was inside a large, adult car. Two liters of the working volume of the motor had to only strengthen the impression. After all, the middle class is called two -liter in Europe. And intensified. Yes, so that I could not imagine! Because under the hood there was a 2-liter ... diesel.

 
    
By folding part of the back, the length of the trunk can be increased from 116 to 190 mm
 
   
In the top of the trunk, comfortable hooks for bags




Who can argue with me now?
Departure on the highway did not portend surprises. Now I will miss the flashes of Xenon X5, I will rebuke and go. In order to gain the desired speed in advance, sharply press on gas ... Who knew that this golf class personnel can jump from a place like a real rally shell! The just peacefully muttered 140-horsepower engine rushed forward as, probably, Archimedes with the cry of Eurer did not jump out of the bath!. As if he opened that he has a high -pressure turbine. About 1700 to 4700 rpm, diesel measured so quickly that I did not have time to go to the step above. And not because the 6-speed mechanics work well. She snapps the programs very clearly. I just did not expect the agility from Volkswagen, what I felt in the charged half-year impecients-WRX or Lansere-Evo.

But still the most interesting was later. It turns out that from 20, from 120 km/h accelerate, the machine is absolutely not important. The temperamental acceleration remains in any case. And all because the engine generously produces more than 300 N.M of torque. None of the smoons sedans have such a silicon.
 

It is very nice to ride Jett and not so hastily. Remembering only that border at 17001800 rpm, when gas is better with gas. Perhaps the best, the best in the class sound insulation of Jetta only complements the feeling of comfort. About 140 km/h in the cabin, you can talk with a whisper sitting on the gallery! Moreover, even if the wheels are shod in studded tires. According to the sound insulation of the bottom and wheeled arches, this Volkswagen is the equal to many business class sedans. It is a pity that the steel rogues of the wheels are already 120 significantly affect the course stability. Before that, walking with the confidence of the high -speed train, now Jetta makes you catching.
 

After a couple of hundred kilometers, I found her another pleasant feature. No matter how I squeezed all the juices from the motor, the engine never required more than 7.8 liters of fuel per hundred. Any most economical gasoline one and six in such modes will bring liters 1213. If you move in the general stream, only for a safer overtaking of quiet -classes using monstrous traction, then Jetta will be the best and in the supply of stroke at one gas station. On 850860 km, its 55-liter tank is enough.
 

In short, after a couple of days of our acquaintance I was in the seventh heaven. I would have finally met such a machine that it was precisely exactly to me: a quick, economical, loyal to most irregularities, despite the sedan, which is not too practical, is still roomy, safe (I have not yet had time to talk about magnificent, accurate brakes). Alas, alas ... of course, you are not right. She really became a column nobleman. For the corresponding money.
 



Golden fish GMBH
Jett’s sellers can repeat the premium segment and advanced technologies arbitrarily, try to lure modifications with an abundance of modifications and there will not be a queue for the diesel sedan of golf class for $ 30,000 in Russia. And half a dozen options, including metallic, ESP, leather finish , bixenon headlights, and completely raised the cost of Jetta to a sky -high heights of $ 36,500. Such a price tag will make the vast majority of those who could afford the borus turn away from the car.
 

Of course, you can choose a 2,0FSI gasoline. Save in this case already ... $ 1300. No people? Of course ... the good old 102-horsepower 8-valve remains. Take it? A solid outwardly convenient and simply expensive in the optimal equipment of $ 2728 thousand car. Just try not to remember that for this money today there is a whole galaxy of powerful middle class sedans, in comparison with which your Jetta-1,6 will look just sorry for the suburban highway.
    
The minimum optimum

Jette has three configurations (trendine, comfortline and sports), 4 engines and 3 gearboxes. Even the basic trendine-1,6 with a 5-speed manual transmission is already expensive from $ 22,909, although it is quite well equipped (air conditioning, electric package, heating of seats, audio training, 6 pillows, active head restraints). But it is worth painting it with a metallic, order an alarm, a light alloy and a radio, as the price will jump up to $ 24,500. Prepare another $ 2322 per automatic. It is already unreasonable to pay more for the golf class car. So, comfort-2,0FSI costs $ 28 901. It is richer than the base for cast discs and a more practical salon. Sportline-2,0FSI (from $ 29,445) also offers a sports steering wheel and chairs. Diesels 1.9 (105 hp) and 2.0 (140 hp) require at least $ 27,049 and $ 30,206. DSG box for these versions costs $ 1858.
  
PER

A solid appearance, a painful and economical motor, clarity of the ICD, excellent build quality and sound insulation, high level of safety
VS

High price and high cost of options, poor visibility back, long, low rear overhang
 
Volkswagen Jetta 2.0TDI

general information


 
Body (number of places/doors)
Sedan (5/4)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1393
 
Length x width x height, mm
4554x1781x1459
 
Base, mm
2578
 
Trunk volume, l
527
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
9.7
 
Speed, km/h
207
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
4.9/7.3
 
Fuel tank capacity, l
55
 

Engine
 
Working volume, SMZ
1968
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
140/4000
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
32.6/1750
 

Chassis
 
Suspension
Independent, Co stabilizers of the anti -resistance stability
 
front
Type McEzerson
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
205/55 R16
 

Car
from 0.21 $/km
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov

 
 

A source: Magazine buy a car [07/2006]