2011 Volkswagen Jetta

2011 Volkswagen Jetta

The sixth generation Volkswagen Jetta, known as the NCS (New Compact Sedan) during its development, was announced in the North American market in June 2010.

The new model is larger and cheaper to produce than the previous Jetta making the vehicle more competitive against rivals such as the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic as part of Volkswagen’s goal of reaching sales of 800,000 units in the North American market by 2018.

Production of the vehicle is at Volkswagen’s Puebla, Mexico facility.

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Although no longer sharing any body panels with the Golf and having a longer wheelbase, this model is partly based on the same PQ35 platform.

VW target of increasing its North America market resulted in creating more affordable mass appeal products.

This forced cost cutting measures to be made, which include lower quality trim material, the return of the 2.0 L 8 valve 115bhp engine as well as rear drum brakes on lower trim models to lower starting price.

Engines from the MK5 Jetta carried over include the 170hp 2.5 L (5-cylinder) as well as the economy-minded 140hp 2.0 TDI (diesel) engine.