US based site VWvortex brings us some great coverage of the New Compact Coupe, including this rendering of how they expect the next Jetta sedan will look. In fact, the report says the profile of the show car is pretty much exactly the same as the final shape for the production version of the four-door Jetta sedan, which is expected to go on sale in the US before October.
This is clearly Volkswagen’s best effort in recent years at making the Jetta a proper stand alone model, rather than simply “a Golf with a boot”. Moving away from platform sharing, to a degree, VW will rather employ component sharing across its model range. This Jetta, for example, has a wheelbase around 75mm longer than the Golf VI, but it will share components from the Polo, Passat and everything in between.
As you can see from the images of the New Compact Coupe, interior styling has also been given a hand to establish an identity of its own. Sure, it’s all Volkswagen design language, as you would expect. Now, though, the Golf and Jetta will appear as siblings, rather than identical twins in different outfits.
More on the New Compact Coupe from the Detroit show can be seen at the VWvortex gallery.
UPDATE 13 January: For more Jetta speculation head on over to The Motor Report.
[Source: VWvortex]
9 replies on “Volkswagen Jetta four-door sedan rendering”
I hate renderings.
They always get our hopes up too high.
If the coupe is happening then you can bet this IS the new Jetta.
The paint looks good.
I’m not holding my breath. But if the production version is near identical, it’ll replace the 159 TI that’s lodged firmly in my four-door sedan w@nk bank.
Looks like an Liberty front end with an A4 rear end.
For a mass market sedan it looks good.
My prediction is VW will sell heaps of these!
I agree with Tank – the whole thing looks very Subaru Liberty-like from the side.
I doubt they’d ever sell an R version of this.. would be nice though!
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