Unlike most modern VW products, the Polo still has a manual hand brake, meaning we could rip off some hilarious front-wheel-drive slides on the ice. The interior boasts the classic GTI plaid seats ...

Polo has been a South African-market icon since the early Seat-derived models, with global production, bar for China and ...

Volkswagen’s new Polo GTI is a big step up from the car it replaces, and not just because it is no longer hampered by the supercharged and turbocharged 1.4-litre engine and DSG-only gearbox.

Producing 204bhp, the Polo GTI’s 2.0-litre turbocharged engine will take you from 0-62mph in 6.5sec. It has more than enough oomph to get you up to speed very easily and puts out its power in a ...

Other changes include the adoption of heavily modified versions of the Polo’s ... of the MKI Golf GTI? Well yes and no. It’s quick, agile and fun to drive, but like all modern VW GTIs there ...

2.0-litre turbo-petrol engine VW has allotted 250 units in the first batch It is the second time that VW will offer a GTI-badged model in India; previously, it had brought the 3-door Polo GTI.

Fast forward to 1995 and application of the GTI tag spread to the compact VW Polo, which close to three decades later brings us to the current, sixth-generation version. It arrived in Australia in ...

Fast forward to 1995 and application of the GTI tag spread to the compact VW Polo, which close to three decades later ... it’s just nowhere near ideal as a modern urban conveyance. Sure, it’s ...