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My impressions.
First, it was a BIG disappointment to me. I never liked the photos of the Jetta V however I was finding that I was nonetheless EXCITED to see it at the show. I half expected myself to change my mind once I saw the car in person. After all, I am a Jetta owner and love my Mk4.
However, when you see the car, especially with so many new and striking cars all around it at the auto show, its barely noticable. It does not stand out at all and in fact looks less interesting than all of the offerings by other manufacturers. In particular, the Japanese cars in the same class destroy the Jetta V in terms of appearance and general features.
The front of the car does look okay, but when you turn to the side of the car, it generally has no real shape or lines to catch the eye. The rear looks horrible with very cheap looking ricey tails. The round-in-square tail lights look like they should be on a Malibu or something.
Despite the general formlessness, I think it COULD have potential for an external makeover. But for the interior. The interior is the most disappointing thing.
Let me tell you now that the seats are the worst VW has ever sold. They are flat and shapeless, and they feel hard but not in a good way. They do not hold you in place at all. Its like sitting on a fold-out patio chair.
The dash looks cheap. You know how all the plastic on the VW does not seem plastic-y? That was always a big thing for me. Well, in the MK V all of the plastic looks and feels like plastic. The "quasi-aluminum" trim is NOTHING like the aluminum trim in the 20th/337. It just looks like plastic. The dash itself does not have the "soft" feel of the Mk4 either, its harder and feels cheaper to me. Look to the gauge cluster for a great example of the interior of the Jetta V. Its shapeless, unoriginal and basically a step DOWN from the Mk4 gauge cluster. Just black rings with orange needles.
The overall lines of the dash seem to be out of date, in fact sitting in the Mk V you might even forget you're not in a Mk 4. Which is not a good thing. Many of the parts are exactly the same as the Mk 4. All the stalks, buttons and bits are right out of the Mk4.
See the car for yourself at the show and make your own judgements.
First, it was a BIG disappointment to me. I never liked the photos of the Jetta V however I was finding that I was nonetheless EXCITED to see it at the show. I half expected myself to change my mind once I saw the car in person. After all, I am a Jetta owner and love my Mk4.
However, when you see the car, especially with so many new and striking cars all around it at the auto show, its barely noticable. It does not stand out at all and in fact looks less interesting than all of the offerings by other manufacturers. In particular, the Japanese cars in the same class destroy the Jetta V in terms of appearance and general features.
The front of the car does look okay, but when you turn to the side of the car, it generally has no real shape or lines to catch the eye. The rear looks horrible with very cheap looking ricey tails. The round-in-square tail lights look like they should be on a Malibu or something.
Despite the general formlessness, I think it COULD have potential for an external makeover. But for the interior. The interior is the most disappointing thing.
Let me tell you now that the seats are the worst VW has ever sold. They are flat and shapeless, and they feel hard but not in a good way. They do not hold you in place at all. Its like sitting on a fold-out patio chair.
The dash looks cheap. You know how all the plastic on the VW does not seem plastic-y? That was always a big thing for me. Well, in the MK V all of the plastic looks and feels like plastic. The "quasi-aluminum" trim is NOTHING like the aluminum trim in the 20th/337. It just looks like plastic. The dash itself does not have the "soft" feel of the Mk4 either, its harder and feels cheaper to me. Look to the gauge cluster for a great example of the interior of the Jetta V. Its shapeless, unoriginal and basically a step DOWN from the Mk4 gauge cluster. Just black rings with orange needles.
The overall lines of the dash seem to be out of date, in fact sitting in the Mk V you might even forget you're not in a Mk 4. Which is not a good thing. Many of the parts are exactly the same as the Mk 4. All the stalks, buttons and bits are right out of the Mk4.
See the car for yourself at the show and make your own judgements.
If it's smoken it ain't broken
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