Cars.com auto reviews I am Kelsey Mays for cars dot com were at the Chicago Auto Show checking out Volkswagen’s new Jetta GLI now Jetta faithful should know the GLI means this will be a higher-performance variant up the redesigned Jetta but Volkswagen also promises it’s a higher quality version that should satisfy those traditionalists who find the new car maybe a little bit to basic let’s check it out see certainly a bit more aggressive look here then on the regular Jetta you got things like honeycomb inserts for the upper and lower air openings on the nose you also got vertical fog lights here they look a lot closer to the fog lights on the Volkswagen GTI the ones on the Jetta get around back and you’ll notice that the tail lights to that kinda smoked out darker treatment jill has got some interesting interior enhancements things like a flat-bottom steering wheel like the one in the GTI and heavily bolstered sport seats I’m to go on record here with a little bit of a revelation automotive journalists myself included care way too much about things like soft touch dashboards the krajena drew a lot of flak because it didn’t have one well the GLI does its of here but I think car shoppers gonna care a lot more about areas they actually touch like the door panels which here are still shrouded in pretty hard plastic if you’re a former Jetta owner you like the fact that the armrest ratcheted up with adjustable in the car used to have um it doesn’t anymore in the GLI or the regular Jetta and the headliner still really scratchy and kinda low quality like it is in the regular Jetta so high level of quality in certain areas that the media care a lot about maybe not in areas that the automotive buying public should care about July gets volkswagens 2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine it’s good for about 200 horsepower it also gets a fully independent rear suspension versus the semi-independent rear in the new Jetta stay tuned for more will let you know that is drive once we get some seat time and the car goes on sale in May for more car-related new Skoda cars dot com or block kicking the tires dot net
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