Used Car of the Day: 2013 Volkswagen Jetta GLI

by Tim Healey

Published: February 13th, 2024

used car of the day 2013 volkswagen jetta gli

Today we return to New Jersey to bring you this 2013 Volkswagen Jetta GLI.

This one has 94,000 miles and some mods. Those include a clutch kit, shift kit, ECU tune, and air-intake upgrade.

It appears pretty clean and it's an Autobahn with a stick. The kind of car many of us pine for -- a sporty compact with three pedals.

If this is suited to your tastes, click here.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Wjtinfwb on Feb 14, 2024

Nice car from my favorite generation Jetta. But 11 years old, 100k, modded... No Bueno. A brand-new VW is a dicey proposition modded with a decade under its belt is like sticking a live grenade down your shorts. It's going to go off and the result will be painful and ugly.

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Zerofoo on Feb 14, 2024

I was told by a wise man long ago: "It's expensive to be poor".

When I asked him what that meant, he described things like check-cashing services for people without access to banking services, payday loans for people that couldn't live paycheck to paycheck.....and buying other people's problems in the form of high-mileage used cars.

He was right.

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- Analoggrotto on Feb 14, 2024
  
  Buying smaller product portions from convenience stores instead of bulk from costco or sam's club.
  
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- Carson D on Feb 16, 2024
  
  That's why misanthropes hate Wal-mart. They make volume pricing available to the poors, which hurts Warren Buffets' 'dollar' stores, where small prices are accompanied by smaller portions. Usually, it is people who order their groceries from Amazon who work the hardest to keep Walmarts out of ghettos in the name of protecting local businesses. They're exactly like the imbeciles who protest pipelines to protect Warren's railroads.
  
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