Jetta a deleactable small car

James Healy from USAtoday test drove the Jetta and this is what he says:

"If there's a more entertaining, satisfying, easy-to-drive small car than the 2006 Volkswagen Jetta, one that also can match Jetta's high-class feel inside ... well, there isn't one in the same price range.
Jetta has some of the delightful personality of the Audi A3 (Test Drive, July 29). No surprise. Audi is VW's luxury brand, and the A3 uses hardware similar to Jetta's, though the Audi looks different and is priced higher.

Jetta is the best-selling VW in the USA. No small matter, then, when it's redesigned. Jetta was enlarged, given a standard five-cylinder engine, instead of four-cylinder, and graced with sweeping style that resembles the larger, pricier, also recently redesigned VW Passat.

No small matter, either, that previous Jettas (and other VWs) have had quality problems, including ignition and power-window malfunctions. VW says those were solved and don't carry over to the new design.

"The company has really focused on improving each new generation of vehicles. We're seeing drastically improved quality," measured by reduced warranty claims and other VW internal criteria, spokesman Clark Campbell says.

In one test car, the latch failed to engage on the rear-seat pass-through door to the trunk. In another, the overhead sunglasses holder was jammed, though that easily could have been the work of some ham-fisted previous user rather than a component failure.

Buying a Jetta is a bet that VW has resolved the bugs that have landed the previous-generation Jetta (plus the New Beetle and the Passat V-6 wagon) on Consumer Reports magazine's list of cars with "multiple years of much-worse-than-average" reliability scores."