Overview & Reviews

The Volkswagen Jetta receives a variety of updates for 2015. They include front and rear styling changes and new structural enhancements, the latter of which have resulted in improved frontal impact safety test scores. Inside you'll find improved materials quality, as well as several new available electronic safety features. Finally, the Jetta TDI has an updated diesel engine that's both more powerful and more fuel efficient.

• Spacious interior and trunk
• Good fuel economy and performance from turbocharged engines and available Jetta Hybrid.

• Weak, inefficient base engine
• Mediocre touchscreen displays.
• Middling handling and steering capabilities
• High price of hybrid and diesel-powered TDI

User Reviews:

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  Its a Yugo with an Audi powertrain - 2015 Volkswagen Jetta
  By Mollari 2261 - August 25 - 8:46 pm

  Im a 30-year VW-Audi fan that this time around needed to go cheap, but without leaving VW. I also wanted a TDI to match my mostly highway commute/driving. It was easy to get a deal on the Jetta, considering how much theyre piling up on the dealership lots; now I know why. This is the cheapest, dullest car Ive owned since my mid-90s GM ticket to a taxpayer bailout. Its a slick powertrain wrapped in bland styling, numb driving, slow-torture seating, missing creature comforts (we dont even get rear-passenger door lock switches), all riding on Flintstone wheels. Not to mention a real low point in VW quality (e.g. carpets that are cardboard sprayed with hair-in-a-can) and quality control (e.g. embarrassingly poor body panel alignment). Granted, some of this has to do with the fact that my car is a lowly SE and not an SEL trim. For example, the halogen reflectors are like two candles up there, compared to HIDs. And the Yugo GVL called, wanting its instrument cluster back. But much of it rings true across all Mk-VI Jettas; this is the worst VW since the Westmoreland, PA Rabbits of the 1980s. The Jetta is basically the cheapest way to get VWs fantastic powertrains. But you get what you pay for... And next time Im paying more for a Golf, which is more like what us VW owners expect from a VW, and not this sad, sorry exercise in cost-cutting.