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Model years to avoid

Volkswagen GLI

What it says about you

Opinion

A Jetta with the GTI's parts underneath, bought by people who wanted the boot. Quietly the sensible enthusiast choice.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

9 model years on record, 11 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has none. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 nothing on record 0 complaints
  3. 2025 nothing on record 0 complaints
  4. 2024 nothing on record 0 complaints
  5. 2023 nothing on record 0 complaints
  6. 2022 nothing on record 0 complaints
  7. 2021 1 recall 2 complaints
  8. 2009 0 recalls 8 complaints
  9. 2008 0 recalls 1 complaints

What does a Volkswagen GLI say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.