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Red, it seems, is the colour at this year’s Worthersee meet. Yesterday, we saw an lipsticked Q5 presented at the big Austrian GTI meet, and today VW has followed it up with a brace of crimson tuning jobs.
There’s a Halford-spec Golf GTI with red-rimmed alloys, tarty seats and absolutely no more power. More excitingly, VW is also showing off a Polo concept that, it says, ‘offers an initial impression of how a sport version of the new compact might look’. A Polo GTI concept, in other words.
It doesn’t half look like the Golf, does it? Those 18-inch wheels might be a bit much, but we’ll take the sports exhaust and lowered chassis, ta very much.
Unfortunately it’s not exactly… powerful. The Polo concept gets an 1.4-litre engine putting out a pitiful 85bhp, good for a 0-60mph time of around 12 seconds.
Come on, VW – this is a concept! What’s wrong with sticking a mental little turbo engine in there, just to whet our appetite? A mental little turbo engine putting out, say, 210bhp – because you’ll have to top that pesky 180bhp Ibiza Cupra – and promising Viggen-esque levels of torque steer. Even if you never build it, at least it’s something to get excited about.
Or what about a mid-engined Polo W12? Actually, that’s just daft. It’d never fit. In which case we’ll settle for a mid-engined Polo with the 6.0-litre V12 diesel from the Audi Q7. Fast and economical – what more could you want?
Polo GTi lookalike?
VW shows off Polo GTI concept at big Worthersee meet. Problem is, it’s not very powerful. Actually, it’s not at all powerful
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ITMdesign commented on this article
at 02:39 pm on 21 May 2009
85 bhp??? wtf? if you would get a leash around a turtles neck and get it to pull the fat polo around you would get more hp
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Elvismiggell commented on this article
at 02:49 pm on 21 May 2009
Perhaps they're going to take the standard 1.4 and give it the TSi treatment?
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BONDY96 commented on this article
at 03:57 pm on 21 May 2009
wow how fast?
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lambosareforeva commented on this article
at 04:44 pm on 21 May 2009
FAIL 85 bhp! thats stupid low. You need more than 100 bhp to get around, 85 is less than a bloody scooter
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heinz commented on this article
at 04:46 pm on 21 May 2009
The problem with the Polo is that it weights a lot more than an Ibiza or any other supermini. That's because of course it's built way way better, but then - sadly - 85bhp is not much for a Polo. If a GTI version is likely to exist though, it won't have 85bhp, why not the 1.4 litre 140bhp from the Scirocco?
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