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Friend of mine picked up a low-mileage CPO VW Jetta Wagon in 2019 with a manual transmission. IIRC he paid around $14K for it. So it was one of the VW buybacks that was reprogrammed. I rode in it for the first time a few weeks ago. I was impressed by the speed it accelerated at; being diesel I thought it would be slow. Once out of warranty he plans on flashing it and putting a sport suspension in it. Overall MPG is around 40 all Northern VA suburban traffic.
He tried to convince me to get a similar sedan/wagon when VW had a lot of the buyback manuals in inventory. It wouldn't have been a bad choice, now that I've been in one.
Silver lining perhaps.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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