The heart of Volkswagen's growth approach inside U.S. is its upcoming New Midsize Sedan, designed to replace the Passat using a auto as roomy as the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. Ahead of that car, VW has unveiled its 2011 Jetta, which also grows, nicely filling the gap between the Golf as well as the larger Passat replacement. At 182.7 inches long, the new Jetta is a lot more than 3 along with a 50 percent inches longer than the '10 model, creeping closer to the C/D-segment. Rear-seat legroom is up a couple of.6 inches. And VW says its sticker will probably be $1700 less than the old model. Having a starting price of just $16,000, the Jetta competes not only with the Honda Civic and Toyota Camry, but also with cars just like the Ford Fiesta and Mazda2.
If the brand new sheetmetal looks familiar, that is since the Jetta draws heavily from the brand new Compact Coupe idea unveiled at last January's Detroit auto show (pictured beneath)..! Styling resembles other family items like the new Touareg as well as the Golf.
The 2.5-liter I-5, regrettably, remains the Jetta's bread-and-butter engine, even though the excellent 2.0-liter TSI turbocharged gas direct-injection four remains an choice. A two.0-liter four and the a couple of.0-liter TDI clean diesel, making 236 pound-feet, also are from the lineup. A six-speed manual is normal across the board, with automatics optional. The TSI and TDI engines is going to be obtainable with VW's six-speed DSG.
So the new Jetta raises the question: Will VW enter the rocky Civic-dominated coupe marketplace which has a production NCC? Given VW's aggressive development approach for the 1st 50 percent of the decade, it seems a excellent bet.
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