Vehicle report
2014 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN
This model year
What the record shows
The 2014 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen is a small station wagon, and the 10th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 2005 to 2017.
The EPA rated four configurations: engines from 2-litre four-cylinder to 2.5-litre five-cylinder, front-wheel drive only, four transmissions and running on diesel and regular gasoline.
Combined fuel economy ranges from 26 to 32 mpg depending on which one you have.
The federal record holds 34 owner complaints, 1 safety recall and 767 service bulletins for it.
Counts are reports, not rates. A complaint is something an owner chose to file; it is unverified and unadjusted for how many of these cars were sold, so the useful comparison is against other model years of the same car. Recalls and investigations carry more weight because a manufacturer or regulator acted on them.
Reading this report
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.