Pick Your Polo Poison
Published: February 19th, 2010
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Before you choose, remember, this Polo GTI won’t be coming to the United States when the nameplate arrives sometime next year. In fact, no three-door hatch is planned for America at all, since VW has decided to go the Echo route and only sell sedan-bodied Polos stateside. Well, with one exception…
A “Polo Plus” for plus-sized Americans is planned. “It’s more like a cross between a compact minivan and a hatchback. In other words, it’s more like the Honda Fit,” says VWoA’s Stephan Jacoby. This 2011 Cross Polo, which will take a bow at the upcoming Geneva Auto Show, could just be a preview of the model VW has in mind. You know, without all the expensive, high-tech European engines.
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I read somewhere, in the last day or two that this Polo GTI will be equipped with a 1.4 liter part supercharged/part turbocharged, 180 HP engine...which sounds really great...Then, to take all the wind out of those sails...it will be available only with the slam-bang, 7 speed VW automatic(automated manual)..No standard shift...Hmmm nothing sporty about a little tiny car with an automatic tranny to me... dragonfly
I never understood why small sedans sells in the usa, and not hatchbacks. The only ones that buys small sedans here are cheap/poor senior citizens. Younger people buy hatchbacks.