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With the hot-hatch craze in full swing by the early 1990s, so many
/
flew out of American
showrooms that I have no problem
in
the big self-service wrecking yards
nowadays. The European hot-
sedan
craze never was quite as big, and so
Jetta GLI 16Vs from the 1985-1993 era
have become real junkyard rarities; they’re not worth much now, but so few were sold that most got crushed years ago. Here’s a 225k-mile example I found in Denver last month.
The 134-horsepower
16V competed with… well, not many cars. There was the
EX sedan, which had the same 108-horse engine as the Si hatchback and sold for $11,450 (versus the GLI’s $13,725 price tag, equal to about $27,100 in 2019 dollars). The 1990
Calais International Edition sedan got a mighty 160 horses from its
and could be had with a five-speed (few were), but it cost $14,995 and weighed 300 pounds more than the GLI 16V. Turbocharged
,
3 Series, and the like cost
way
more than this car.
This engine will look familiar to you owners of 1990 Golf GTIs.
of this era didn’t have a great reputation for reliability among maintenance-averse American drivers (who thought nothing of going 60,000 miles between
on their poor abused
), but this one had owners who took care of it. 225,569 miles would do credit to any
or
of the era, though it can’t touch
the 930,013 miles on this ’82 Rabbit
.
It’s not rusty and the body looks decent apart from some swapped-on fenders, but nobody wanted to rescue this Colorado-sold car from its depressing fate next to a generic Japanese commuter appliance.
Safety and Fahrvergnügen!
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