Just got my February R&T, they state that Acura claims a 13hp increase from '05 to '06 if the SAE Standards for 2006 are not considered. The picture of it makes it look really sweet.

 

Scan?

 

yeah dude

 

 

...at least tell us what they said.

 

my bad...thanks for the scans...you put them on 1 min before I posted my reply

 

Hehe, np.... since I'm in the spirit of img posting, check out my next reply to this thread...

 

Car and Driver Feb 2006

 

thanks for the posts!

i was just at B & N reading them both today.

 

I still think if the TSX could not get 1st, at least give it to the Accord. Anything but the jetta! It should lose more points just for it's looks, let alone longevity.

 

^^ oh god please don't start this again.

just read it and move along...

 

Nice scans...sad to see the TSX in 3rd.

However, you can kinda see why this was the case based on objective acceleration numbers. But speed alone does not make a car great.

 

God, the front end on the GLI is just butt-ugly.

 

Lovin' that ASM on that TSX

Those new jettas look fugly !

 

GLI is made in Mexico and not Germany right?

 

I had to laugh.....Car and Driver said the Accord lacked visual pizazz...Yeah right...did they actually take a look at the front of that Jetta......UGH! And those rims look like they were pulled out of a Cuisinart food blender.

 

hahah exactly what i thought.... i would rather get cars that are made in japan

 

Those car mags rarely add in reliabilty issues into their judgement unless they had issues during their tests. That being said they chose a car built in Mexico as their top car and I doubt they were unaware of it. Take that for what it's worth.

 

"Highs: sweet engine, snick-snick six-speed, gazelle moves, uptown interior"

I rest my case.

 

new jetta GLI is fugly. It's too bad, b/c the old ones were hot:
http://www.bentleypublishers.com/ima...a.gli.2005.jpg

 

There is now way the VW should have won....

 

After looking at promo photos on the VW website, the Jetta doesn't look half bad - on the exterior. I was one of few to call it "fugly" in the other thread. The interior however looks like it missed the trip to the 21st century. Why the f... would anyone need sound control knobs (base, middle, treble, balance, fader) all lined up in the middle of the stereo console?

 

^^^How can you look at the front end of the GLI in the pic above and not conclude that it's fugly? It's horrible.

 

I agree the photos in the article looks fugly. The pictures of the Jetta on VW's website look pretty decent. Are they not the same car?

 

I haven't looked close enough. Maybe VW offers more than one front end on this car. One can only hope.

 

R&T assigned a substantial number of the total available points to a "Gotta Have It" factor. WTF is that? The only other consideration seems to be how fast the cars go. I wouldn't be getting too upset over it.

 

The regular jetta model has chrome grill that's why it looks better. But the one in the pic, looks like it's missing the middle of it's front. So much for VW being "the people's car".... seriously, I can't justify current VW prices....

 

The "gotta have it" factor is an excuse. In Canada, the civic SI won the new sports car category. So where does that leave the Corvette Z06 you ask? Well, they created a category called "gotta have it" or some bullshit like that. And ofcourse the corvette won. Pathetic!

 

Actually its probably more of a "peoples car" this year, being the GLI/2.0T has expanded into the TSX category. Last years model GLI wasnt close and the base model jetta is still afforable to younger familys looking for a good base car.....It would seem they are expanding to a wider range of the public.

 

That number sounds familiar...

 

On the closed thread "2006 Road And Track first drive *SCANNED PIC
" you can see pic of the TSX better. Note that the TSX is a fabulous Royal Blue Pearl!



Excited

 

yes, couldn't agree more. Volkswagens and Audis have HORRIBLE grilles. UGH makes me nauseous just thinking about it.

 

3rd is an decent finish, considering the competition is either V6 or Turbo.

 

Edmunds Inside line also wrote very extensively about the TSX and the GLI and said they are so similar, and that it's one of the closest comparison tests thy have ever had. They also said 'Things were so close that if you removed the nav system and its associated price penalty from the TSX we're pretty sure it would have been a dead heat.'

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=107677

 

That jetta is soooo poor mans BMW E90 its not even funny almost like a toyota echo if you can't afford Camry...

 

yeah but it has one of the ugliest faces to look at.

 

Thats an awesome compliment even mentioning jetta and bmw in the same sentence like that......but i do wonder about your comparison......if its a poor mans bmw and the new jetta still has better performance and value over the TSX.
Where does that leave the TSX in your opinion?

 

Considering the poor man's BMW is the lowest model of the 3 series, and the Jetta is a car I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy(unless it was a girl with rich parents), I think it'd put the TSX in pretty good standing. Just because Jetta's can be fun to drive but break all the time is not a good reason to compare them to BMWs. Compare them to Audis.

 

c&d lost a lot of cred points for me with this one. and just about everyone i know thinks the new vw don't look nearly as good as the older vws.

 

Rich mans Accord