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More pictures of the “new” VW GTI

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The current model is still a very nice looking car.
I saw the new Golf in Europe a few months ago. And besides the “too big” rear lights, it looks really good.
With 210hp, it’s also very similar to the current model.

We’ll get to see it over here at the end of this year. With the new Rabbit and revised Jetta.

Conversation 19 comments

  1. “Revised” Jetta? So you’re telling me they are not going to keep their top-selling model current and competitive by making it new like the Rabbit/Golf? Who’s running that company – Douchebag Jones?

  2. After being the unhappy owner of a Passat for 4 years, I do not pass up an opportunity point out that quality is only skin deep on these cars. In your post of the JD Powers reliability survey last week, Volkswagen came in second to last. That is pretty awful. When you sit in this car or drive it, you will think you are getting a BMW quality car at a Toyota price. Do yourself a favor and get a BMW. With the money you will pour into this car in repairs after a few years, you would have been able to afford the Bimmer. And I will bet you that the BMW dealers will treat you a lot nicer than the arrogant service people at VW ever will. But I do agree, this car looks nice.

  3. I agree with the above poster at 4:50. Sadly, the quality of a VW is just not there. Very nice looking but the repairs involved mean I will never buy another VW.

  7. From a design standpoint, I LOVE volkswagens. But their quality control problems are real.

    My mother-in-law had a passat that was ASStastic. I’ll probably never own a VW because of it.

  8. I really hate the new Golf. It’s just gone on sale here in Australia and up close it’s not different enough to the old one. The designers probably thought Touareg tailights and Scirocco headlights on an old Golf body were good enough. I’d much rather my Skoda Octavia RS which is cheaper in price yet offers more equipment and room as standard compared to the Golf GTI, from which everything underneath is shared!

  9. “Anonymous said…
    After being the unhappy owner of a Passat for 4 years, I do not pass up an opportunity point out that quality is only skin deep on these cars. In your post of the JD Powers reliability survey last week, Volkswagen came in second to last. That is pretty awful. When you sit in this car or drive it, you will think you are getting a BMW quality car at a Toyota price. Do yourself a favor and get a BMW. With the money you will pour into this car in repairs after a few years, you would have been able to afford the Bimmer. And I will bet you that the BMW dealers will treat you a lot nicer than the arrogant service people at VW ever will. But I do agree, this car looks nice.”

    x2 to everything said above. FOUR modern VW products have been lemoned where I work. FOUR!!! If that doesn’t scream that there is a problem I don’t know what does.

    VW builds trash. Who cares if your vehicle drives nice and has nice materials if you can never enjoy it.

  10. I’ve had a 2008 VW Rabbit for 2 years now and never had any problems at all with it… give it an oil change when necessary, have traveled extensively with it, and experienced no issues at all. Maybe these Passats are older, Mexican-manufactured models?

  11. The Passat was made in Germany. The Jettas made in Mexico were nightmares as well. Glad that you got the Rabbit owner got a good one. VW does produce some good cars along with the bad ones. I was a loyal VW owner until this Passat, and if VW had treated me with any respect I wouldn’t be so bitter about the experience. But when you pay close to 29 grand for a car and are treated with the attitude of take it or leave it, I left it.If you look at the myvwlemon website, you will see I have plenty of company.

  13. I think we all can agree that VW has
    some SERIOUS reliability and customer
    service issues (You’d think they could
    handle all of that, being German)
    that will come back to bite them in the
    butt if they’re not careful. VW, your
    reputation is at stake.

  15. I made the mistake of buying a VW and I had a 2006 GTI up until three months ago. NEVER again will I purchase a VW. You hear far too many horror stories about VW products and I was stupid enough to ignore them. Add me to the list of unhappy (former) VW owners.

    I defected from Honda in late 2005 after owning 5 trouble free Civics and Accords since the early 80’s. I just wanted to try something new.

    In the three years I owned the GTI it spent nearly 50 days at the dealer having problems corrected. That works out to almost one month a year that I was without my vehicle a year. Not ONCE while I owned my Hondas was I without my car for more than two days AT MOST. One of my Accords had over 230,000 miles on it.

    I am now happily driving a ’09 Accord Coupe V6 and I am sure it will be as bulletproof as my other Hondas were.

  16. This is why I picked an Acura to replace my Prelude, just didn’t want to chance the reliability I have grown accustomed to. Never heard/read a positive thing about VW reliability.

  17. I’ve noticed that the reliability problems seem to be US only? The rest of the world VWs seem to be fine! It’s even funnier that VW owned brands have better quality. the owner is meant to be better!

  18. It could be that Volkswagen of America is really bad at servicing their customers and cars. This was my experience. They never fixed the car on the first visit, or could never seem to duplicate problems (hesitation). They also wouldn’t address problems- mine went through brakes ever 7500 miles and they told me this was normal. There were also a lot of recalls and issues like bad ignition coils and engine sludging, leaking sunroofs etc. that they took a long time to address. In other words they really know how to piss off their customers. If you don’t believe me, look up customer reviews on Passats and Jettas that are 3 years old. VW of America stinks.

  19. “Anonymous said…
    I’ve noticed that the reliability problems seem to be US only? The rest of the world VWs seem to be fine! It’s even funnier that VW owned brands have better quality. the owner is meant to be better!”

    Uhhh, I had a 2004 A6 that was bought back (lemoned) and I have a coworker who had a ’05 A4 bought back by Audi.

    No, this isn’t limited to VW. I hate everything about the company.

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