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
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First the WRX then this?! WHATS HAPPENING??
end times
Enjoy brexit bitches
Ugglier than a golf, no point in buying it
This is what we call Karma.
*U.K.
Same for india, they killed the jetta last year with no apparent replacment but hey, we have octavia which is practically the next gen jetta
The Jetta is a longer car and therefore has more cargo space
Well…that sucks
About time. There is no point in selling -let alone buying- a less practical and uglier Golf.
Well it’s not ugly, but in Europe there’s a huge problem for the Jetta.
It’s called Škoda Octavia.
What’s going to be removed from the UK next I wonder…
The T W I N G O
Couldn’t you take a short trip over to Germany or France, buy a new Jetta, then bring it over? Or are there laws that prevent that
No I think you can do that. I don’t even think it involves taxes since the UK are still in the EU
The car would be left hand drive if you can convert it you have to pay more money and maybe it wont look so good you are better off buying something else
cries in the corner with see you again on
YAAAAAAAYYY
Now I’m just waiting for Volkswagen to axe it in China. They’re clogging up the roads…
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They are still pretty rare here in France but it’s a useless car tbh
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