Volkswagen UK Has Killed The Jetta And We Might Not See It Again

Volkswagen UK has scrubbed the Jetta saloon from its lineup, just a month after the company stopped producing the Scirocco at all.

The market for saloons in the UK has been decreasing for decades, leaving only a few pockets where premium cars need to have the traditional old-fashioned boot. The Jetta, effectively a less practical Golf, was always living on borrowed time.

What’s more, the model seems to have disappeared from the German site, too, while the brand prepares to launch a replacement.

In the UK, the Scirocco sold in 10 times the number of the Jetta, showing how low demand really was. In numbers that’s just 379 cars to the end of last month. In the same time period VW UK shifted 5398 Passat saloons and 52,722 Golfs.

A new version is coming next year, but it’s not yet clear whether it will come to these shores. With sales figures like that, what would be the point?

Source: Autocar