For three decades, the Jetta was the best-selling Volkswagen on the market, thanks to its compact size and three-box sedan look, which made it suitable for families and company cars as well.

After selling more than 17 million Jetta/Bora/Vento models around the world, the seventh generation of the compact sedan from Volkswagen was introduced at the 2018 North American Auto Show.

A cutdown version of the Volkswagen Passat, the Jetta was the best selling model in America.

Volkswagen introduced the sixth generation of the Jetta/Bora/Vento in 2010 and tried to convince the customers that it was a sporty compact sedan with four doors.

Volkswagen unveiled the second generation of the Chinese-specific Bora in 2007 at the Beijing Auto Show to increase its sales on that market.

The Jetta reached its 5th generation when it was launched in 2005. The first Jetta ever built saw the light in 1979.

While it was already common for Volkswagen to offer a station wagon in its compact-segment, it was unusual to offer two vehicles based on the same platform with the same shape.

Volkswagen introduced the fourth generation of its compact sedan lineup in 1998 with different names for different markets, as Jetta, Bora or Vento, based on the same platform as the Golf MK4.

Volkswagen introduced the third generation of the Jetta at the beginning of the '90s and built it on top of the same platform as the acclaimed Golf, but aimed at different customers.