2015 jetta with 6 spd manual rare?

MattCade

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2015 jetta se (cvca, 02Q 6spd)
I convinced my mother to buy the car a while ago and she got a couple years of use out of it, now I bought it from her, haven't ever seen another tdi jetta in my area and not a tdi with the 6spd for sale anywhere ever, haven't looked that hard but curious if I have something that's sort of rare, NA market BTW.
 

oilhammer

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There are just too many to list....
It's funny, when TDIs first appeared here in 1996, they were manual only. It wasn't until 1998 when the New Beetle came out that you could get a TDI with an automatic, but as the years progressed, manuals' numbers went. When the B5 Passat [finally] got here with a TDI, they were automatic only. And all the later V6 models sold here are also automatic only, as was the Audi A3 TDI.

Then Dieselgate happened, and most of the rare manual NMS Passat TDIs were removed from the road!

So yeah, I'd say that car is pretty rare, but especially rare given that fewer people who drive manuals are willing to part with them in the first place.

For a 2015 Jetta sedan, I'd guess it was probably 10-15% were manuals. And they had a less-optioned TDI available that year, too (with steel wheels, no sunroof, and a lesser radio).

So kudos to you for having one! Enjoy it! After 2024, there will be no more manual Jettas sold here AT ALL. Let alone the fact that yours is the last diesel!
 

MattCade

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2015 jetta se (cvca, 02Q 6spd)
It's so sad that manuals and diesel cars are a dying breed, my jetta is the most fun car I've ever had by far, sadly it got pretty tore up from shops doing half assed work and a drunk driver attack, working on getting her back to mint condition before doing some tasteful mods, won't let this car go to waste, thanks for the info.
 

ScottBob

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2015 Jetta SE
My 2015 Jetta SE TDI has the 6 speed manual, sunroof, alloy wheels, and nice radio. (Previous owner bought it new in 2015 and did not cave into the buyback program.) Although I grew up driving cars with manual transmissions, my previous rides for the last 20 years have all been automatics, so I had to get used to driving a stick shift again... I sometimes wonder why the heck I went back to a car with a manual trans, seeing that my daily commute is an hour both ways in stop-and-go traffic (what a workout), but on the open road it gets so much better gas mileage and is a blast to drive.
 

Lug_Nut

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2015 GSW 6M in S trim the other oil burners: 1967 two stroke Sonett 1988 Bolens DGT1700
It was because of my stop&stopagain (it wasn't even stop&go) commute that I was hankering for a euro torque converter to stuff an automatic into each of my B4 TDIs.
Now I've retired, don't have the commute, and have gotten back into a manual. Now I need to re-learn how to count to more than five.

Are the DSG considered by Fred's contributors to be automatic transmissions (to me an 'automatic' means fluid drive and torque converter), or is the DSG considered a mechanical gear transmissions with automated clutch and ratio selection?
 

oilhammer

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I consider the DSG to be just a "type" of automatic transmission. It isn't unique. But it was the first of its kind.

Anything that can be called a transmission, and can change ratios automatically, would be an automatic transmission.

A fluid driven torque converter is just one component that many (most) automatic transmissions use. But there are transmissions that use torque converters that do NOT shift ratios automatically. You're old enough to remember Volkswagen's "AutoStick" Beetles sold here from 1968 through 1975. Porsche had a version, too, I think they called it Sportomatic or something. Honda had a 2-speed setup that was similar.
 

wonneber

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2014 Jetta Sportwagon,2003 Jetta 261K Sold but not forgotten
I consider the DSG to be just a "type" of automatic transmission. It isn't unique. But it was the first of its kind.

Anything that can be called a transmission, and can change ratios automatically, would be an automatic transmission.

A fluid driven torque converter is just one component that many (most) automatic transmissions use. But there are transmissions that use torque converters that do NOT shift ratios automatically. You're old enough to remember Volkswagen's "AutoStick" Beetles sold here from 1968 through 1975. Porsche had a version, too, I think they called it Sportomatic or something. Honda had a 2-speed setup that was similar.
If I recall, GM had a 2 speed trans.
The Power glide or as I called them the Power slide.
Tough trans.
 

oilhammer

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Yes, and it shifted from 1 to 2 automatically.

All these years later, GM still struggles to make a slushbox that lasts, LOL...
 

tomo366

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Kensington, Maryland USA
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2015 Jetta SEL TDI
My 2015 Jetta SEL TDI in Tornado Red is a 6 speed Manual and has all available options Except the DSG! the Late great Chris Farnham ordered this car for me in Oct of 2014 I picked it up in Feb 2015 Chris Passed away a month later, 6 months later Dieselgate happened I kept the Car And VW paid me $8500 to keep it and gave a long Warranty! A deal I couldn’t refuse…..the Car only has 72K miles today and my Wife drives it now
 

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Lug_Nut

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Anything that can be called a transmission, and can change ratios automatically, would be an automatic transmission.

But there are transmissions that use torque converters that do NOT shift ratios automatically. You're old enough to remember Volkswagen's "AutoStick" Beetles sold here from 1968 through 1975. Porsche had a version, too, I think they called it Sportomatic or something.
The VW automatic stick shift would NOT be meet an oilhammer definition of an 'automatic transmission'. It was a vacuum operated clutch but driver operated gear selection.
Now would the early '60s Saab Saxomat, with dual centrifugal clutch (allowed sub-idle rpm push start AND also allowed higher rpm free-wheel needed for the two stroke engine) and used vacuum for the gradual clutch re-engagement in the next driver selected gear.
Both the VW and the Saab were manual gear selection, and manual transmission by my personal definition, despite each having an automatic (no driver action needed) clutch.
 
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