Volkswagen always has a big presence during the Worthersee event in Austria and for 2012, the company surprised its fans with the new Polo WRC Street Concept. For those that love compact cars with a lot of power, the Volkswagen Polo WRC Street Concept will make it to roads in production form in late 2013. [...]
Volkswagen’s Polo Match model has been given a special treatment with the launch of the Polo R Line. On the interior is a set of ‘Kyalami’ trimmed sport seats, R Line headrests with an ‘R’ logo, aluminum-capped pedals, and an R Line badged steering wheel The headliner is covered in black cloth. The outside of [...]
Besides the new sporty Volkswagen Golf GTI Cabriolet, there is another somewhat sport model sitting here at the V-Dub stand at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. What do we mean by ‘somewhat sport’ – well, for one it’s missing the ‘i’ letter from its GT badging and because V-dub says that it’s pretty zippy. Meet [...]
Many automakers are now rushing to bring subcompact vehicles to the U.S. market and you would think that a company like Volkswagen would be the first out of the gate with a subcompact – but that’s definitely not the case. Currently, the smallest V-dubs offered in the United State are the Jetta and the Golf [...]
Volkswagen is making more choices available to its European consumers for its Polo supermini and Passat models. Two R-Line styling packages have been released for the Polo. The R-Line Exterior package for the Polo Comfortline and Highline versions gives the front grille a black gloss finish, new front and rear bumpers, side skirts, a rear [...]
Earlier this year, Volkswagen said that it was unlikely to launch an R version of the Polo since it couldn’t make a business case for it and since it doesn’t want to jeopardize sales of the Golf R or Golf GTI. However, earlier this month, Volkswagen released the Volkswagen Polo R WRC – that’s right a [...]
Volkswagen AG has just unveiled what it calls “the hottest Polo of all time.” Set to debut and contest at the FIA World Rally Championship in 2013, the Volkswagen Polo R WRC is the latest motorsports development following VAG’s victories in the famous Dakar Rally for the last three years. “We are working on this [...]
Like the GTI version of the new Volkswagen Polo? Looking forward to a Volkswagen Polo R? Well, don’t. The German automaker is unlikely to launch an R version of the Polo, despite Audi having produced an all-wheel-drive version of its PQ25 platform for the new Audi A1 quattro. It has been long rumored that a [...]
Prior to the 2010 Paris Motor Show, we were led to believe that Audi would unveil the much-anticipated S1, the high-performance version of the Audi A1. However, in Paris, all we saw was an Audi A1 with a 1.4 TFSI unit that produces 185-hp. While the 1.4 TFSI powered Audi A1 is the range-topping variant [...]
Volkswagen today unveiled the new 2011 Polo Sedan, which has been specially developed for the Russian market keeping in mid climate and street conditions. “The new Polo Saloon does not only fulfil the highest standards of modern automotive engineering,” said Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Brand with responsibility for [...]
