VW Jetta TDI: Function, not flash

There are definitely more flashy cars out there than the VW Jetta TDI which focusses on function. And that's nothing bad.

I find the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI's lack of exceptionalism exceptional. This car is ordinary, routine, a mean of averages, a flat line on life's electroencephalogram. It is nonprovocative right down to its brake shoes. Find the most common of gardens, and the Jetta is that garden's variety.

This unassuming car returns better than 40 miles per gallon on the highway. It requires no special care or handling to achieve this efficiency. You don't have to top off some reservoir with strange blue fluid, monitor your electron-flow rate as you do in a Toyota Prius or Honda Civic hybrid (not that that is a big burden), or conjure the pagan gods of natural gas, or plug in. You turn the key and go.

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Source: Boston.com

VW Jetta TDI: Function, not flash

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