Since Volkswagen is a German company, the popular Jetta car is probably supposed to be pronounced "Yetta"

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And Volkswagen is pronounced Folksvahgen.
- No, it's pronounced fow-veh!
Indeed. Though interestingly, the Jetta seems to be much more common abroad, t's a pretty rare car in Germany.
- What car do you see in Germany most often?
  
  The Yolf
  
  For roughly Jetta-sized cars by Volkswagen, it's usually Passat or Golf (including the 'Golf variant' station wagon). VW Passat is fairly common as a police car, too.
Is it called the Jetta there? I know some cars have regional model names.
- Good question actually!
Apparently, the name is derived from "jetstream", so it probably is supposed to be pronounced like cheddar. But a German who does not know that would probably pronounce it as Yetta, yes.
Wenn call it also Jetta here in Germany. Here an old ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBu2Lc24554
popular german automobile? what year is it?
Does VW even make the Jetta anymore?

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