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Originally Posted by dafischer View Post
The handling reminded me of the 84 Rabbit GTI that I had in the 80's, and was very light on it's feet. The gear ratios are nicely spaced, and the shifter is precise. Good power and acceleration, not as good as my dear departed Volvo S60R, but no complaints. I bought it, so now I'll see how this generation of VW is.
This won't help much for a 2017, but I owned a 2 door 1980 Jetta for about 4 years.
5 speed and as you said...very good handling. The part I really liked about that car was the seat height. It sat like you were in an suv..but still plenty of headroom.
I had zero problems with it.
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