I have driven these at work before and they are sweet. The size is perfect and the awd is icing on the cake. I'm not exactly sure how to do it but if you mess with the gas and brake at the same time you can get launch control to activate on the little in dash screen. Just make sure traction control is off first.
Replaced Golf Sportwagen with an Alltrack
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I nioice my Jetta has no rear leg room - this Alltrack doesn't look much better.
My Wife's older forester was like a Limo in the second row.
Good Luck with this nice "looking" ALLTRACK.
but you wont see me in another VW after my recent Jetta experience.
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Originally Posted by ARCOgraphite
I nioice my Jetta has no rear leg room - this Alltrack doesn't look much better.
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Just to clarify on legroom as many have mentioned it. The pics i posted are with me sitting far back, im about 5' 10.5" tall with long legs so i sit pretty far back. You would have issues putting a large rear facing car seat behind my seating position. You can fit one easily behind Passenger side with Passenger giving some space up. So if your like 5'6" or less this car will seem plenty big.
If you need to just go to lunch with 4 adults everyone will be perfectly fine for that type of trip. Try to pack 5 in? Don't, the tunnel in middle is big and its not a wide car. Could you take family of 4 on a trip in this? Sure, if your grown ups aren't tall. Its similar to back seats of other compacts but is nothing like the midsize segment. Worse than a large sedan but way better than a coupe.
Took it on my first normal trip to work today and i must say it really impressed. Soaking up all the horrible road areas and normal bumps very well and the DSG was shifting like a ninja, super fast and unnoticed. Seemed to read 20 MPG on the day, and that seems great for the stop and go daily route.
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Originally Posted by ARCOgraphite
I nioice my Jetta has no rear leg room - this Alltrack doesn't look much better.
My Wife's older forester was like a Limo in the second row.
Good Luck with this nice "looking" ALLTRACK.
but you wont see me in another VW after my recent Jetta experience.
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But (and I may have my "generations" messed-up here) isn't there an 8th gen. Golf out now or soon-to-be that replaces a bunch of controls with touch-pad stuff? Meaning that the SportWagon and AllTrac were based on a 7th gen. Golf chassis?
MK8 golf is still in development, coming out soon. What i purchased is considered MK 7.5 golf, mostly a facelift i think. the MK8 golf will go back to German build and likely cost a lot more in addition to not offering the Estate/Variant/Wagon model to USA.
DSG service intervals are 40k, not sure on the Haldex.
Originally Posted by KCJeep
DSG service intervals are 40k, not sure on the Haldex.
Originally Posted by Cdn17Sport6MT
Originally Posted by bachman
* Look over at VW Vortex site sometime if interested.... there is a good write up on many DSG subtleties and features, it's somewhat instructional and filled in some things for me that were helpful knowing.
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Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
According to spec, 2019 Jetta has 37.4" of rear leg room. 2019 Alltrack has 35.6" of rear leg room. By comparison, my old 5-series has only 34.2" of rear leg room, and yet I don't find rear space to be an issue, alas, I'm on the shorter side.
All in all, Jetta/Golf are compact cars. If you need lots of interior room, you should be looking at a different segment/category, IMO.
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Originally Posted by bachman
Good spec listing. I was thinking to offer a link of some sort to that info. All cars and reviews have handy comparison stuff like that these days.
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As per rear seat room or leg room, many nits I see posted about vehicles strike me and things somebody got wrong or just didn't catch when they were test driving or considering vehicle choices.
How is this legroom measured? With My Front seat in the proper driving position( not all the way back)
, I cant even get in the rear.
Rear seat room is NOT good given the length of the car.
But like I said, It's not a good body design.
And It's too heavy. Poor visibility to rear and sides.
But blame crashworthiness - or not.
I don't care about back seat room. I just put groceries back there.
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Originally Posted by dwcopple
My '19 Jetta SEL has plenty of backseat room.
Originally Posted by bachman
Originally Posted by Cdn17Sport6MT
Originally Posted by bachman
* Look over at VW Vortex site sometime if interested.... there is a good write up on many DSG subtleties and features, it's somewhat instructional and filled in some things for me that were helpful knowing.
