Weird tail lights….looks a little dumpy. Reminds me of a Saab somehow. Otherwise the sheet metal looks good.

i like it. very clean cut and streight to the point. NOW WHERES THAT DAMN SCIROCCO!!

Pretty sharp. Interesting direction VW/Audi is going with the rear glass on the avant type cars. (Compare to the Q7).

Front end looks like I expected, but somehow that back end say “Mercedes” to me…

This is definitely something new compared to the previous squared-off Golf/Jetta wagon. However, the lines just don’t quite meet up in my opinion. It’s not at all recognizable as a Volkswagen - could be a Merc or Saab, as previously stated, or an Arura RL wagon for that matter. Why the droopy line from the tail light arch? And the door cuts in as to intentionally limit the load width. The biggest statement I see VW making with this car is that they do not want it to make any statement at all. Design by committee?

I wonder why the Europeans are so afraid to call a station wagon a station wagon. A variant of the Golf would be the GTI, or the R32. But change the body style to a station wagon, and its….well….um….a station wagon.

finally! ive been waiting months for them to show this puppy… the GLI verision will be badass, theres already one confirmed.

the taillights should have travelled into the hatch though

Looking forward to the GLI of this as well, A4, do you have a link for this?

———–>i don’t know why, but that backend just whispers “Saab” to me……..

Looks nice. A GLI version, like renton said, would spice things up a little bit.

I’ll take mine with AWD, please.

no thanks

ewww, serisously its as if they got kia to do the rear end. not a vdub at all.

For some reason it reminds me of Thelma from Scooby-Doo, but that’s only from behind.

Sorry, I’ll have to pass on this “variant”.

U-G-L-Y-, looks like a chip-monk

I actually thought it looked like a fish with oversized eyes.

is this gonna be one of the 800,000 that will be recalled…

funny how people and LLN forgot to mention that…

I think the rear of this car is awful, just like almost everyone else here. Looks like people on LLN can actually come to a consensus about something.

My god that is ugly from the back. I really like the other VW tailights (jetta, passat, golf), but these are horrible. Terrible design job.

I figured out what it looks like from the back, an old Hyundai Accent. Not good news for a brand new car.

http://www.cardata.com/spoilers/images/CD_Spoilers/Hyundai_Accent_15L2M.jpg

The rest of the VW lineup has high-set taillamps with circular elements.. so why does the rear of this look like the previous-generation Nissan Sentra? The D-pillar and rear side window treatment is similarly bland.. not nearly as sharp and distinctive as the Passat wagon. Supposedly Winterkorn wants VWs to be instantly identifiable from the front.. so what gives here in the rear?

Saab rip-off?? It’s kinda obvious.

Nice though. It’ll take away from the actual Saab sales.

Nice. I currently drive a 325it (wagon) and this looks just as sporty. I got the wagon so I could take my (big) dog around and not have her ruin the back seat with nails and hair. This is one of the better looking wagons I’ve seen, better than the new 3er, but not nearly as expensive. The only reason I got the 325 was because I got a smoking deal through a vendot discount, and my company paid for it. Next purchase is on my own, and this would fit the budget. I had a 2000 Golf before the three, and really enjoyed that car, and like VW/Audi’s as a general rule. This wagon just knocked the A3 out of the ring for me!! Nice job Vdub, just make sure you make a TDi/DSG version for me.

ugly!

heres one renton
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/06/15/volkswagen-to-unveil-jetta-wagon-in-september/

Looks nice to me

Thelma was definitely a from behind kind of girl, perhaps that was an effect of living in a dog-centric environment. To me this car is the opposite of Thelma, as I prefer it from the front.

Nice to see a consensus here, but when a design is this wrong its not surprising. It isn’t attractive (from the rear), it isn’t practical, it looks like it came from another manufacturer (SAAB and perhaps Honda to my eyes) and it has dropped one of the Golf V’s best features (rear lights).

They definitely had to do something drastically different to distinguish this from the Passat variant. But I wouldn’t have gone this route. That said, I think it will sell ok and the practical side of me would prefer this to the sedan -especially in GLi trim (still practical, right?).

Daphne gets my vote.

VW dropped the ball on this generation Jetta and this is the worst variant yet.

The real problem is the rear has absolutely 0 VW design cues. More like old school Saab cues, which aren’t great cues to have.

The 2008 GLI Wagon will be killer!!!

I agree LamborghiniZ. I thought they were headed in the right direction with the last Jetta and they ruined it.

As someone who loves photography, that third shot is sweet.

Ah, more job security for your loal VW techs.