Volkswagen Vento (A3)

The Volkswagen Vento is a small family car and the third generation of the Jetta, successor to the A2. For this generation the Jetta name was dropped in Europe and the car was renamed Vento, following the precedent of naming cars after winds, and it debuted in 1992. The name means wind in both Portuguese and Italian. The Jetta 3 reached North America in 1993 after production delays and quality problems at the Puebla plant in Mexico, and went on sale in most of Europe in the first quarter of 1992 but did not reach the British market until September 1992. Volkswagen kept the Jetta name in North America because of the second generation's success, and renamed it in Europe to appeal to a younger market. Styling came from a team led by Herbert Schäfer, the two-door model was dropped and the drag coefficient fell to 0.32.