Volkswagen Jetta V

Among the 315 Volkswagen entries in the MotorJury library, the Volkswagen Jetta V holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Volkswagen Jetta V properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron, the Audi AG Audi Q7, the Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Volkswagen Jetta V reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1.4 L Turbocharger / TSI Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.6 L I4 / 1.6 L Fuel stratified injection / FSI I4 / 2.0 L I4 / 2.0 L FSI I4 / 2.0 L Turbocharger / ; kerb weight is recorded at related = Volkswagen Golf Mk5 / Audi A3 Mk2 / SEAT León Mk2 / SEAT Toledo Mk3 / SEAT Altea / Škoda Octavia Mk2; drive goes through 5-speed manual (0A4) / 6-speed manual (02Q) / 6-speed automatic (09G) / 6-speed automatic (DSG 02E) / 7-speed automatic (DSG 0AM); the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Volkswagen story

Within Volkswagen's own catalogue the Volkswagen Jetta V sits alongside the Volkswagen Apollo, the Volkswagen Routan, the Kübelwagen, the MPV Tehran. The record names the Volkswagen Bora as its predecessor and the Volkswagen Jetta (A6) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to sp = uk. Assembly is recorded at Mexico: Puebla, Puebla / Puebla / China: Changchun (FAW-VW) / South Africa: Uitenhage / Russia: Kaluga / India: Aurangabad, Maharashtra / Aurangabad (Škoda Auto Volkswagen India / .

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 35 mpg combined, which works out near $2,800 a year in fuel at current prices.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Volkswagen Jetta V was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.