Shortly after we named Tom MacLachlan's '01 VW Jetta 1.8T our top pick from Waterfest 13 (et 10/07), he made a couple of notable changes to differentiate his car from the rest of the Mk4 community ...

VW has stopped sales of all 2014 Jetta sedan, Passat sedan, and Beetle coupe and convertible models built after February 1, 2014 and fitted with the new 1.8-liter turbocharged engine and an ...

The result of these measures is a class-leading drag coefficient of 0.27. The new 2019 VW Jetta is powered by the 1.4-liter TSI petrol engine, which has been further optimized to sip less fuel.

We suspect that VW’s desire to achieve the Jetta 1.8T’s impressive EPA highway fuel-economy estimate of 36 mpg had something to do with the noise. Left to its own devices, the six-speed ...

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Under the hood, this Jetta sports the 150 horsepower 1.8T and a five-speed manual transmission ... or even the crummy soft-touch surfaces VW liked to put in their cars at this time.

KANATA, ONT. — Time for some Volkswagen trivia: When did the company begin putting the same 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine into the compact Jetta sedan?

The Jetta 1.4T SE delivered an impressive 41.5 mpg on the highway during our Real MPG testing, comfortably besting the 39 mpg VW claims the car makes on the EPA cycle. Torque and tall gearing are ...

VW then had to put a hold on selling new diesels ... that can meet or beat the Jetta 1.4T's fuel economy. (That's not even counting hybrids, several of which are more efficient than either ...