I posted a few days ago about the one line description on the Jetta Wagon "Standard Features & Options" page on the official VW site. On Saturday it listed under "Transmission" :
"Floor mounted kick-down switch for automatic"
It was standard on the VR6 GLX but optional on everything else. The page at the time also listed the 200 hp engine for the VR6. I went back the next day and the line was gone. Also the engine was back to the 174 hp. Was I dreaming?
So I checked the "Jetta" (not Jetta Wagon) page. And it's still there:
"Floor mounted kick-down switch for automatic"
After feedback from my first post, I Googled BMW "kickdown" and read about their Switch-Tronic" feature.
Here's my question. Is this a totally new feature for 2003 on both the Jetta and Jetta wagon VR6 and did a web geek prepping pages for the '03 release on Saturday accidently leave it in the Jetta page?
I stopped by the dealer and talked to the sales people. No one has heard of such a thing. I even talked to the mechcanic and he knew about the BMW feature but has heard nothing about it on VW.
BTW, a kick-down switch is DIFFERENT than punching the throttle. ALL automatics will drop one or two gears if you stomp on it. But they upshift at the first opportunity.
A kick-down switch is like the steering wheel switch on some new cars that do electronic shifting. If you kick it, it locks the gear down one until you Tip-Tronic it back up. Sounds like fun to me.
So who out there knows what's going on with this new feature?
Is this a web geek slip up or has someone actually USED the feature on an '02 Jetta?
Rod
"Floor mounted kick-down switch for automatic"
It was standard on the VR6 GLX but optional on everything else. The page at the time also listed the 200 hp engine for the VR6. I went back the next day and the line was gone. Also the engine was back to the 174 hp. Was I dreaming?
So I checked the "Jetta" (not Jetta Wagon) page. And it's still there:
"Floor mounted kick-down switch for automatic"
After feedback from my first post, I Googled BMW "kickdown" and read about their Switch-Tronic" feature.
Here's my question. Is this a totally new feature for 2003 on both the Jetta and Jetta wagon VR6 and did a web geek prepping pages for the '03 release on Saturday accidently leave it in the Jetta page?
I stopped by the dealer and talked to the sales people. No one has heard of such a thing. I even talked to the mechcanic and he knew about the BMW feature but has heard nothing about it on VW.
BTW, a kick-down switch is DIFFERENT than punching the throttle. ALL automatics will drop one or two gears if you stomp on it. But they upshift at the first opportunity.
A kick-down switch is like the steering wheel switch on some new cars that do electronic shifting. If you kick it, it locks the gear down one until you Tip-Tronic it back up. Sounds like fun to me.
So who out there knows what's going on with this new feature?
Is this a web geek slip up or has someone actually USED the feature on an '02 Jetta?
Rod
