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Jetta SportWagen R

8 July 2010 14 Comments

Over the weekend, I spent some time getting our daily driver MK5 Jetta back to stock as our lease will be up early next year. I’ts a fun car but we’re looking into what car to replace it with… maybe the MK6 Jetta? I dunno.

The Volkswagen Golf Variant we commonly known here in the states as the Jetta SportWagen is now on its 4th body version. The release of the latest MK6 Jetta SportWagen features a completely redesigned front end.

Quick comparison between the MK5 and the MK6 SportWagen

The updated MK6 front end certainly looks fresh consistent with the front end of of MK6 Golf. But what if you already have the MK5 SportWagen and just wanted to update your look to the MK6 without having to trade in your ride?

Well a guy in Japan had the same thought and what he did was pretty remarkable.

He started with a 2009 MK5 Jetta SportWagen known there as Golf Variant.

He then started personalizing it with your basic mods like wheels suspension, front lip and rear valance. But just like many of us, it didn’t really stop there as he further enhanced it with big brake kits, custom dual exhausts, cold-air intake, fender extensions and a different sets of wheels to name a few.

In the midst of him tricking out his ride, Volkswagen released info on the MK6 Golf R. This model features a real aggressive front bumper.

He got a hold of the brochure and more ideas started rolling. I’ll build my own MK6 Jetta Sportwagen R!!

To start the conversion, he got the necessary MK6 parts like the front fenders, hood, headlights, grill and the ever so important Golf R front bumper.

Surprisingly enough, it actually looked goood.

He even took it up a notch by extending the hood a few inches longer just enough to cover the top portion of the oversized VW badge while giving the car a mean and angry look.

And after all said and done, this is the finished look.

He later replaced the front grill with the badgeless version which looked even better.

A few more pics..

There you have it, an MK6 Jetta SportWagen R stylings based on a MK5 Jetta Sport Wagen.

photo source: Minkara

14 Comments »

Rui Augusto said:

Great work. incredible beautiful and white!

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# 8 July 2010 at 2:44 pm

Adam said:

Clean as hell what an awesome daily that would be

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# 8 July 2010 at 2:47 pm

vivalarey said:

Scirocco SporWagen?! xD

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# 9 July 2010 at 1:20 pm

AJ said:

Wow, just wow… its great to see people having the greatest ideas ever, the imagination and actually following thru.

Personally I wouldnt extend the hood further down, but thats just me and its a known VW tradition so I wont knock it.

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# 9 July 2010 at 11:55 pm

aarrjj said:

Wow. This is fresh to deaf. TRBOMOM just got an MK6 Sportwagen. Gives me some ideas! Let’s do it Jon (get one)!!!

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# 10 July 2010 at 9:59 pm

Kevin said:

WOW!
Great Upgrade!
I would LOVE to upgrade my SportWagen like that! How were the tail lights done?

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# 13 July 2010 at 6:34 pm

Adam said:

Holyshit what a good conversion

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# 16 July 2010 at 11:06 am

Brian Provorse said:

Oh my…..How could get my hands on that rear bumper. I have already found the front, so I am good there (once I purchase ) I think doing this car in the Blue that the R20 has would look amazing (not that this one doesn’t already).

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# 25 July 2010 at 4:50 am