2014 VW Jetta TdI

[Talus1]

Originally Posted by Chop Shop

Just ended up getting the car for about 17500 out the door, 2014 with 28000 miles. Manual transmission so I won't have to worry about DsG fluid or anything. Free oil changes for life if I decide to go back to that dealership.

Drives smooth, much different clutch than my scion

We just traded in our '13 Golf Wagon Tdi (Jetta Sportwagon to you). It was nice enough, being what the wife referred to as the "adult" car in comparison to the BRZ, but we just didn't have a long enough commute to be worth it. In the winter the damn thing never even warmed up by the time we got to work, even using the block heater overnight, lol. Also, we missed having AWD. I'd have been willing to wait to see if VW brought the AWD version of the 7th gen wagon to Canada but the wife didn't want to run it through another winter. She was also paranoid about stalling it, which is surprisingly easy to do when the AC is on full in the summer. Which is how we ended up with a 328i Touring...

[Model Citizen]

over the years have owned or had in immediate family a hadful of vw diesels between mk1 and mk6, have also had several gti/r in family.

vw screwed the jetta platform, it used to be an equivalent to the golf rather than inferior

last fall we traded a 12 golf tdi for a 15 gti. Basically because the newer vw diesels are not the old vw diesels. New ones just have too much fancy emissions related complications and things to break. My 03 on the other hand had the relative sophistication of a tractor.

Our net mpg result factoring for fuel costs are about a wash, and i no longer have to demand the gf gets fuel at only truck stops to hopefully ward off the fuel system grenading due to poor quality diesel.