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06-15-2005, 01:21 PM
First Test: 2005 Volkswagen Jetta
Jetta... Better? Is the latest Volkswagen pocket sedan turning Japanese?
By Kim Reynolds
Photography by John Kiewicz
Motor Trend, May 2005
It's happened again. The shifting winds of German styling, which have been spinning weather vanes atop design studios from BMW to Mercedes-Benz, have finally descended on Volkswagen. And as those winds die down in Wolfsburg, the resulting scenario is difficult to comprehend.
Months ago, the former Jetta possessed a modest but legitimate Euro-something look: a spare Teutonic honesty you couldn't put your finger on, but it became evident when light swept over its unadorned flanks.
All that's been blown away. Volkswagen's traditional look has been swept up by a flamboyant new vocabulary for its fifth generation, an event we should've seen coming in the wind-whipped shape of last year's big Phaeton.
...[MORE] (http://motortrend.com/roadtests/sedan/112_0505_jetta/)
http://motortrend.com/roadtests/sedan/112_0505_jetta01_l.jpg
Jetta... Better? Is the latest Volkswagen pocket sedan turning Japanese?
By Kim Reynolds
Photography by John Kiewicz
Motor Trend, May 2005
It's happened again. The shifting winds of German styling, which have been spinning weather vanes atop design studios from BMW to Mercedes-Benz, have finally descended on Volkswagen. And as those winds die down in Wolfsburg, the resulting scenario is difficult to comprehend.
Months ago, the former Jetta possessed a modest but legitimate Euro-something look: a spare Teutonic honesty you couldn't put your finger on, but it became evident when light swept over its unadorned flanks.
All that's been blown away. Volkswagen's traditional look has been swept up by a flamboyant new vocabulary for its fifth generation, an event we should've seen coming in the wind-whipped shape of last year's big Phaeton.
...[MORE] (http://motortrend.com/roadtests/sedan/112_0505_jetta/)
http://motortrend.com/roadtests/sedan/112_0505_jetta01_l.jpg