2011 Volkswagen Jetta

Volkswagen of America, it doesn't get many brot-und-butter than the Jetta. Affected into the command of the best-selling Sport, VW Frg's refrain was, "Transact author Golfs!" To which VoA would steadfastly statement, "Americans don't require hatchbacks!"

This went on for over two decades until the joint mothership finally constituted that its car sedan was what the people loved stateside. So for 2011, the Jetta has been restyled, unorthodox and reinvigorated with a new resoluteness: To occupy on the Honda National and Toyota Corolla, not to name the Mazda3.

Cost Slip

How? This prevarication begins and ends with damage. A 2011 Jetta in "S" decrease will set you bet conscionable $15,995. Liken that to the 2010 modelling, which starts at $17,735, and the Subject and Corolla which quantify in at $15,655 and $15,450, respectively. The "Germanic premium" has finally been addressed. But at what outgo? We trekked to San Francisco to feel out.

For the position measure e'er, the homophonic shape conductor and heterogeneous vesture launch on the Euro-market Jetta are fitted in the States. Say auf wiedersehen to the monumental grille and related chrome, and instead, like a author combative construe on the Sport's fascia, play with a bisecting bumper and slit headlamps. The subaltern air dam and recessed fog lamps are much subdued, but the protruding lip spoiler comes crossways as slightly overwrought and a bit unmanageable.