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City cars are pure. City cars are disciplined. City cars are great. Two simple factors govern their entire design and development: they have to be cheap, and they have to be small. And so it follows that they have to be clever. You'll find far more innovation and smart thinking in your average city car than you will in a family saloon or sports car.
Even so, you'll be amazed how often firms get it wrong. Volkswagen's corporate cupboard has more than its fair share of skeletons. The Lupo was overpriced; the Fox, a misjudged Brazilian outcast. But the Up is different.
Top Gear drives the Volkswagen Up
To call it a small Golf is to do it a huge disservice. It's way better than that: brilliantly packaged inside, it has oodles of passenger space in a frame a foot shorter than a Fiat Panda's. It sports an all-new, three-cylinder engine, weighs less than a tonne, is effortlessly easy to drive, live with and use. It is the cleverest small car around today, the city car we knew VW was capable of producing, the distilled essence of Volkswagen.
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8thgear commented on this article
at 05:16 pm on 21 December 2011
"City cars are pure. City cars are disciplined. City cars are great." sorry TG, but this is wrong. So that means the G-WIZ is great ? NO! City cars are evil and need to be exterminated, not promoted.
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A_N_S commented on this article
at 08:10 pm on 21 December 2011
let's be honest, this is an attempt to make a pure beetle. but you can't make a pure beetle...
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at 08:17 pm on 21 December 2011
@8thgear they said city cars not electric pieces of junk that need charging every 5 yards, are incredibly ugly and don't have any room at all.
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Mariani commented on this article
at 11:15 pm on 21 December 2011
City cars are for the weak. The end. I mean, just look at that car again, and then try and think about having fun with it. That's just gibberish, I'm sorry. Bring on the interesting stuff, guys.
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Gavron commented on this article
at 06:46 am on 22 December 2011
wat abt the fiat 500 & the panda?
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