1987 Volkswagen Jetta User Reviews

My First Car...the 1987 Vw Jetta (awesome Old Thing) — What a good old car! Performance- Well, it was an 87 jetta with an inline 4...so it was not by any means fast, but it got where it needed to go and would power through rain and any depth of snow with ease! Build Quality...it lasted 317k miles....enough said Appearance was butt ugly. It was maroon in color with faded black plastics, small rust starting, and looked like a box...but it did it's job valiantly Cost of ownership got more expensive as it aged due to failing old parts, but for the most part, each part was cheap! Every part I bought combined barely equaled a clutch job on my new audi...haha Fun factor. This car rocked! It was mine...it was a stick...and the engine was a tank! It took everything a new driver could throw at it and just kept loving it!

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Not Bad — For its age and strength it is excellent. It's a bit hard to drive as it has no ABS nor Power steering. But it is cheap and excellently made. It's not expensive to maintain and it does not spend too much petrol. Not very fun to drive though...

Primary Use: Family transportation

The Bits — My wife got me hooked in VWs when I started driving her Jetta - the first month with stick must have been hell with her, since I drove it like I was playing Gran Turismo. I found that it was really fun to drive, and you got an appreciation for 'precise' shifting since you couldn't just slap it in gear like the early Honda Civics of the same era...... I was really impressed that we did a day trip to the Toronto zoo and back from our Apt on the East mountain in Hamilton on a 1/4 tank! It was a sad day when the years of Hamilton road salt got to the frame and condemned it to a slow passing...

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Love My Jetta... You Never Foget Your First Love — Really good engine! Works very well even at the age of 22! Very solid structure! Great quality! Really fun for me to drive and smoke the taxi drivers with some new cars. Doesn't look perfect, but it's ok to drive =)

Coupes Are Awesome — What can I say? Classy styling. A little sluggish but outhandles just about everything else on the road. Plus I can't complain about a car I got for about $400. Definitely has the "Lego factor." Way easy to work on, you can take things apart and put them back together. Fun and easy to work on, and modify. I can even begin to list all the Frankenstein parts from other cars I've put into my Jetta. There's cars that I want more, but for now, I love this one!