The iconic Volkswagen Beetle gets some updates, including a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Styling rules over practicality in some ways, but the Beetle offers distinctiveness on a budget.
It's based on the pq36 mk5/mk6 Golf platform. True the 2006-2011 Jetta was based on PQ36, but the newer Jetta (the one you showed a picture of), it is not based on.
We have a 2014 VW Beetle. We took it in for a recall on the air bags and the hood latch was broken. The Dealership is unable to get to the latch to open the hood without going through a headlight. They could break a clip that would cost us $800 to replace to do it this way. Looking for information on how to fix this I found that it's a common issue with Beetles in the past, that owners were able to fix on their own. However, with the 2014 the design is different, and we are unable to get to the hood latch to fix it. Why would they use plastic for a hood latch? Why haven't they fixed such a common issue? And why would they make it even harder to fix the problem for consumers. I can't wait to get rid of this car.
seriously thinking about getting this car this will be my 2nd car i currently have a 01 Volkswagen Cabrio and she is a beauty where im from newark NJ people normally drive Mercedes Benz and Bmws ill say at least 2% of the people drives a Volkswagen i am all about different no one has this car at all in my city i cant wait to be the 1st guy to have this car people would be breaking their necks trying to figure out what kind of car I'm driving lol
Always wanted one of the originals. I would still consider one of these, but the competition is fierce. I wish it were more reliable. I know the Golf TDI is recommended. Perhaps one of the Beetle versions will be as reliable.
If you do a lot of miles pick the TDI version of any car. If not go for the TSI turbocharged versions. These 2.5 liter old engines are laughable, can't believe they still sell those to you americans.
***** They don't. They've all been discontinued. VW thought we stupid Americans wouldn't notice their awful engine. Guess what, we did, and VW sales here have been tanking since the initial uptick when that awful Jetta got introduced a few years back. Kinda like when sales tanked around 2000 when people realized how problematic the Passat/Jetta/Beetle were.
victreebel That 2.5 atmospheric engine, as far as I know, is/was offered mostly in the US (or even only in the US). And after seeing the market status when they started there is no surprise, meaning every manufacturer having that same 2.5 displacement on 4 cylinders, they all having poor economy and low power. I even remember most of them having a droning CVT coupled with them, that must have been painful. So they just went with the flow. It didn't help that americans wanted VW for no money, so they lowered the spec, materials and assembly, so the old US Jetta seems better than the new one. The EU equivalent engine would be 1.6, 4 cyl, atmo. but everyone knew it was an economy engine with low repair costs (low tech mostly), mid-range fuel economy, and high durability.
What? It is still closer to the Golf than Jetta, and they are all done on the MQB modular platform. In a way it is all the same car, only the Jetta is the cheaper car for people needing more space for work. In the US you don't see the big picture, there are more MQB platform car that fill the lineup, like the Skodas and Seats. For example - Golf, Leon, Octavia, Jetta, A3 are all the same car. In that tone the VW Polo, SEAT Ibiza/Toledo, Skoda Fabia/Rapid, Audi A1 are similar in platform.
You can't compare today's dollar with the dollar of 1972. The median income in 1972 was around $7,000. And If you worked at a job for minimum wage in 1972, your annual gross income would be a whopping $3,328.
