Rowing through the gears of a 2015 Volkswagen Jetta S TDI’s six-speed manual transmission as we roll across the scenic two-laners of Virginia’s horse country, we marvel in the fact that we’re actually wonderful time. Yep, fun. On a Jetta.
Never would we have predicted this back when Volkswagen first launched the existing Jetta to the 2011 model year. Though it boasted increased space, son-of-Audi styling, along with a more reasonable price, the Jetta was soundly criticized for the utter dearth of character, relentlessly cheap-feeling cabin, gruff five-cylinder base engine, and chassis that had regressed in the Dark Ages with rear drum brakes plus a torsion-beam rear suspension.
Since then, VW has created incremental and substantial enhancements to its North American bread-butterer, and with 2014, all U.S.-market Jettas featured four-wheel disc brakes plus an independent rear suspension. Also for 2014, the latest EA888 1.8-liter turbocharged base four-cylinder engine forced the cantankerous 2.5-liter five-cylinder into retirement. Enter the 2015 Jetta, with its midcycle update that brings new front and back styling, enhanced interior materials (including-at last-a soft-touch dash top), and a new EA288 diesel engine in TDI models. Alas, it seems that the Jetta has now become the vehicle Volkswagen ought to have been building forever.
Usually, the most critical parts of a vehicle’s midcycle renew are modified lumination and fascia elements, but in the 2015 Jetta’s case, they are arguably the least interesting of the updates. A fresh grille emphasizes the car’s wider, along with the new back bumper, while new headlamps give extensively obtainable LED daytime running lamps plus the taillamps evoke its Audi-brand cousins. As well as the first time, even the least expensive Jetta drives on aluminum wheels. To what extent the modifications enhance the Jetta’s looks depends on the observer, but arguably it has become ever tougher to see the gap between the Jetta and the one-size-up Passat.
The interior, once one of the Jetta’s worst features, has turned into a convincingly nice place to hang out for 2015. It’s still Teutonically austere and also the door panels are tough plastic, though the dashboard appears much classy, covered which is with tunneled gauges and reflective piano-black trim panels. High-end content including navigation has trickled below higher trims to low- and mid-grade levels, and interestingly, an available touch-screen infotainment system without navigation is in fact bigger than those of the navigation-equipped cars. And the seats from the S, SE, and SEL models we drove were firm and supportive.
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