and for a VW loyalist exiting a ’70s Beetle, a Jetta would have represented a quantum leap. The post The Mk1 VW Jetta Is a Pleasant but Plain ’80s Relic appeared first on Hagerty Media.

The first Jetta arrived in the U.S. in 1980 and it joined Volkswagen's lineup back then that included the Dasher, Rabbit, Scirocco, Vanagon, and Pickup. VW's Dasher was a durable wagon ...

Volkswagen refreshed the Jetta for 2025, its second such update ... Unlike that original GLI from the ’80s, which entered the ...

Special edition of the Jetta GLI goes on sale early in 2014 Herndon, VA, 12.19.2013 – In 1984, Volkswagen introduced the first Jetta GLI to the U.S. market, setting the blueprint for all ...

For its first 30 or so years, the Volkswagen Jetta was basically a Golf wearing sedan sheetmetal (the first model also was available as a two-door). Through the ’80s and ’90s, the Jetta was a ...

The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta is here, and as we suspected the automaker ... Besides being a gearhead, Beckford has been a gamer since the ’80s and is a huge fan of the arcade racing games of ...

My first car, a European-spec 1986 Volkswagen Jetta GLI with around 100,000 miles of, let's call it "seasoning," helped set me on trajectory that led me to my life's work in automotive journalism.