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Originally Posted by Dantilla
Don't know if I've ever driven an early Jetta like yours, but as an autocross instructor, I've driven plenty of front-wheel-drive cars, and none of them compare to either a 944 or 911 for pure driving fun.
While any car is "fun" on an autocross course, it's far more fun to take students for a ride in the warmed-over 911 and watch their eyeballs grow to the size of dinner plates.
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I counter point that there are certain people who can find a way to hate life on a jet ski with Pam Anderson driving and bouncing away in front. After all, a jet ski isn't a Porsche.
Defining "fun" is the crux here... any make/model can be warmed over but the mk1/mk2 VW are especially receptive to such massaging. Lumping them in with other OEM FWD simply because they aren't Porsche is categorically a mistake.
Let me explain why: The mk2 Golf and Jetta specifically were available in
All Wheel Drive as OEM. The Jetta was for the middle of the production run years ('88-'91 model years) as a Syncro system. Driving fun you say? Have you seen an All Wheel Drive or even FWD mk2 VW "warmed over" from the recent years? You don't know what you don't know which is the basis for the opinion that you're entitled to. I'm only filling in the gap that naturally exists when you don't know what you're talking about. No insult intended, just information sharing which doesn't take from the fun you have in your 911 unless that fun includes ill-informed judgements of the world of vehicles around you.