Volkswagen Polo


The Volkswagen Polo is a utilitarian one that can have body of three and five doors. Its length is 3,916 mm. It is on sale with a range of diesel engines and gasoline between 60 and 150 CV of power, from 11,690 . The most powerful Pole is the GTI and is a specific body, denominated CrossPolo . Volkswagen Polo emphasizes by its space, by the quality of certain coverings of the interior and because he is more expensive than the average. To power equality, Volkswagen Polo is a little more expensive than a Renault Clio, and much more that a Fiat Grande Point or a Ford Celebration. A Skoda Fabia is only a little economic than the Pole, but it can have more equipment from the economic versions. The main changes of the new range with respect to the presented/displayed one in 2005 are in the gasoline motors.

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In gasoline there is a 1.2 l (60 and 70 CV; before they had 5 CV less), a 1.4 (of 75 and one new variant of 80 CV) and 1.6 l (105 CV). The gasoline motor of 80 CV has the peculiarity of which associate can go to a new automatic gear box of six marches. The one of gasoline of 75 only CV is sold with automatic change of four speeds. The rest takes a manual gear box of five speeds (except for the most powerful Diesel engine, than it has it of six).

The Diesel engine is 1.4 with two levels of power (69 and 80 CV) and 1.9 l (101 and 131 CV). The motors gasoline of 1.2 ls and the Diesel engine of 1.4 ls are of three cylinders.

The motors of 1.2 ls have a consumption under (according to 5.8 official data they spend l/100 km in the route of homologation). The Pole with diesel engines also emphasizes by his under consumption, but with the disadvantage of which they are noisy (mainly in urban routes). The Diesel Pole of 101 CV is a car with the benefits necessary to travel with agility by any highway. The Pole is a car is an extensive car and done well.

The most remarkable difference with respect to a Renault Clio, with a Peugeot 207 and a Citroën C3 is in the greater size of the back seats. By near space in the back seats, the Pole is comparable to the Skoda Fabia and Fiat Grande Point.

It gives a positive finished sensation of, because the position to the steering wheel is comfortable and because the controls are well accessible for the conductor. For the versions with body of three doors there is predicted a system that favors the access to the back seats.

He is satisfactory in highway by its relation between comfort and comfort, although it is not of most agile.

With the sport suspension that can have some versions (of series for the “Highline” and in option for the “GT”) the car does not lose much comfort and gains something in precision Range is composed by three levels of equipment “Edition”, “GT” and “Highline”.

Equipped “Edition at least” it needs some interesting elements of equipment: it cannot have nor in option, climatizador, control of stability, airbags of head or a telephone free hands. The gasoline motors of 1.2 ls can only be acquired with the equipment “Edition”.

No of the versions can take xenon lights, but they do not lie down in lack because the illumination that has the Pole is good. In the list of elements of optional equipment they lack some like connection “Bluetooth” for the telephone, that cannot have no Pole. The navigator has screen in black and white.


The cockpit is ampler than the average, including the maletero, since their outer dimensions are also of greatest. Four adults can travel in him without scarcities.

The conduction position also is satisfactory because everything is by hand, and because the ample regulations of the steering wheel and the seat allow to fit it to the taste of each one. The seats of the version “Highline” are better because they have more lateral support and they hold better in body. In any case, the seats of the economic versions we even like (and he is not habitual that thus are in the less expensive versions of other utilitarian ones). The seats of the Pole can go more placed a little near the ground of which he is habitual.

The maletero has 270 ls of capacity, similar to the one of other utilitarian ones of its outer size. A Ford Celebration 5p has 284 ls, a 288 Clio and a Fiat Grande Point 275 ls. A Citroën C3 is appreciably greater, with 305 ls. In practical terms, a pair of suitcases fits type “trolley” and exceeds something of space to take some bags. The spare wheel is just as the other four.

The load edge is something high and when lowering the endorsements of the back seats it is not left a surface flat. The Pole can take a network to hold bulks in the matero, that erroneously Volkswagen denominates “drawer carries load” ( 90).

The interior of the Pole is of better quality than the average by materials and adjustments. The salpicadero is done of plastic with rubber tact in superior half and of plastic it last in the inferior one. The console is of painted, material plastic that is more frequent to find in cars of greater size and price.

It has details that are not in other utilitarian ones, like two plafones of light in the ceiling and four lights of reading, or the mirrors of courtesy with cover and light. There is weave in places where other cars have plastic, and rubber in some anticipated places to leave things. In order to have elements like the steering wheel covered in skin, the handles of the ceiling cushioned and a central armrest in the back seats it is necessary to choose, at least, by the level of equipment “GT”.

The instrumentation counts on temperature indicator of the cooling liquid (something less and less frequents) and habitual the speedometer, revolution counters and level indicator of fuel. This last one does not have a linear operation. At least in the Diesel engine of 101 CV, during approximately first 200 km the needle does not move of the maximum, soon descends slowly until average deposit to end up lowering of fast form the last section.

Also there is a screen to show the information of the computer (autonomy, mean consumption and instantaneous, total and partial distance and outer temperature).


With the diesel engine of 101 CV, the Pole is a car with much force and of low consumption. It as much spends little in city as in highway. What a disadvantage can be is that he is noisy (much more that a Clio Diesel) and has a rough operation (vibrations in the pedals can be appreciated, for example).

The Pole is a car that by its reactions is worth to travel with comfort and has safe reactions. It does not have the agility of a Peugeot or a 207 Ford Celebration, but it responds well and it has an pleasant handling. The tact that has the electrohydraulic direction is very good and one note with clarity as the car at every moment goes. The attendance is neither excessively soft nor very hard.

With the optional sport suspension, the Pole is not even a desaconsejable for that values a certain comfort, because it correctly cushions the possible irregularities of the road without being annoying. The positive of this suspension is that it can obtain that the body has more precise movements something. This sport suspension causes that the body goes 20 mm more near the ground and goes accompanied of a back axis with slight variations (Volkswagen calls “reinforced back axis”).

At the moment, we have not lead the new variants with motor of 1.2 ls (of 60 and 80 CV). The previous Pole with motor 1,2 of 65 CV had a good answer to the accelerator and its consumption could be under.

The illumination of the Pole is good. They are them of double parabola with halogenous light bulbs. As much the short ones as the long ones are very good by how and how much they illuminate. He is one of those cars with which it does not turn out fatigoso to travel at night by the effort which it is put under at sight.