Volkswagen Jetta test drive since 2005 sedan

On the verge

Fu-uh! You can relax. Behind another day of the landfill. Putting a car in the stall, suddenly in the twilight I see a couple of respectable dark sedans one hefty, the other is just big ...
Volkswagen Jetta
- The sedan on the Golf V platform replaces the borus built on the units of Golf IV. The debut took place at the Detroit car dealership in January 2005, the European premiere in the fall of the same year in Frankfurt. The start of sales in Russia February 2006.
- engines: gasoline 1.62.0 liters (102200 hp), turbodiesels 1.9 and 2.0 liters (105 and 140 hp).
- gearboxes: 5- and 6-speed mechanical, two options for 6-speed machines (hydromechanical or DSG).
- configurations: Trendline, Comfortline, Sportline.
- Price: from $ 22 420.
- test car: 2.0 l, TDI, 140 hp, a mechanical 6-speed gearbox, Sportline equipment ($ 30,300), with additional equipment $ 36,000.
  Massive sides, a chrome edging around the windows, a characteristic nasal part for sure, Volkswagen. Most likely, the phaeton and the new Passat.
I come closer what kind of nonsense? Passat in this pair is just the one that is larger. Is it really the second sedan, Jetta! The one that was only recently started to sell in Europe!
A few days later I already walked around the car, like a cat around sour cream managed to get Jetta for the first acquaintance.
Almost limousine
In my place, anyone could confuse her with the Passat. Antracite-blue, almost black sedan, and even in a rich chrome salary looks damn representative. However, chrome around the windows belongs to rich completion. Yes, and in the size of Jett on the verge, it grew so much that it asked for the next one, the D-class with a length of 4553 mm only 43 mm is inferior, say, Opel-Vetra.
However, this is in the order of things: each new model exceeds the previous one, including sizes. And the novelty is based on the platform of a rather large golf v and coincides with it on the values \u200b\u200bof the base and ruts. Naturally, it is much larger than the bore in length for as many as 177 mm, and in width and height, respectively, by 46 and 19 mm.
  Knowing how much more spacious in the stern the fifth golf became, he immediately flopped into the back seat of Jetta by the way, quite flat and hard. That's right, there are also places with a margin with my 180 cm luxurious 15 cm in front of my knees and three times less above my head. But this is if you sit like a mannequin. And a normal person strives to slide a little so fit and a two -meter grenadier. Yes, and in front of the range of adjustable adjustments, well -eliminated seats are huge in the extreme position, I barely rise above the glazing line and hardly take out to the pedals. The casing of the steering column, like the golf, was massive a couple of times with a knee.
In the bustle, I somehow did not specify what kind of engine on this jett. He turned the key in the castle, the usual icons on the instrument panel lit up, and suddenly a characteristic roar of a cold diesel was heard.
The 2.0 TDI turbodiesel with an intercooler and a turbine regulated geometry made an impression on me a few years ago, at the presentation of Golf V: 140 horses are great. But even better 320 Newton meters of moment, who, not even an hour, will pull a car out of you! In a protracted polygon rowing with a steepness of 4% on the VI gear (!), Diesel managed to disperse Jetta from 90 to 140 km/h the elasticity of the motor beyond praise, so that we could not switch over overtaking and lifting.
 
Meet in Russia
Well, how are you, like a fly, you will eat? Run it a barrel so that there is a dynamics in the frame! This dynamics was given to the photographer, I am just trying to understand the capabilities of ESP. Here she is very delicate, in no hurry to intervene and allows you to feel like a skilled driver to depict a slight sliding, go through a turn with a slight drift. And only at the very edge, when you are only going to get scared, it dumps gas, gently grabbed the necessary wheels with brakes and now the car is obedient again on the desired trajectory.
The test jetta was in the configuration of a sportsline with a lowering 15 mm or a more rigid suspension. It was not possible to feel its advantages on snowy asphalt, but the high level of comfort on the paving stones is obvious all the blows and shocks disappear without a trace. But the gap of 125 mm is small: given that the protection of the motor compartment made of plastic, you need to be careful on ice porridge.
In addition to sports suspension, there are six airbags and a complete set of electronic systems. This is the most expensive option of those that will supply $ 30,300 to Russia since February (a two-hundredth 2.0 T-FSI engine will appear later). Of the additional equipment of xenon, leather, separate climate control, heated seats, an audio system with a dozen speakers and something else is only $ 5700, to an even 36 thousand. However!
All European modifications of three gasoline engines and two turbodiesels will be available to us. The lower bar of the price of jettu in the configuration of trendoline with a 1.6 liter engine, 102 hp. $ 22,420 what to say, a lot for the classmate of the focus and the Korolla. But Volkswagen has long ceased to be inexpensive, now the premium brand of premium. Therefore, its high price is perceived differently as one of the terms and evidence of the viability of the owner.
Volkswagen Jetta clearly grew C-class. A very good, large and very expensive car.
+ Comfortable suspension, elastic and economical turbodiesel, rich equipment, convenient controls, spacious salon, roomy trunk.
- High price, a modest road clearance, a massive floor tunnel, short and flat rear seats.
    

 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"