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Spy Photos: Volkswagen Polo GTi Cup

Well lookit here — the tiny hot-hatch-loving kids across the pond may have a new toy for the 'bahns and 'stradas. A new version of VW Motorsport's Polo GTI Cup may be afoot. Originally built in the late '80s, the supercharged Polo GT G40 Cup...


Volkswagen to Premiere CrossPolo at Essen

Volkswagen is launching its new CrossPolo at Germany's Essen Motor Show, that country's aftermarket love fest, next week. VW's outdoorsy version of the mini Polo (it has a tailgate) is the successor to the Polo Fun, a similar, limited-run model...


VW Polo Ad: Send in the Lawyers

Volkswagen is threatening legal action against Lee and Dan, the ad firm responsible for creating the "suicide bomber" ad for the VW Polo. The Polo, a tiny car once entirely unknown in the US, has gained more worldwide brand equity from the...


Yay! Yay! Hecklerspray: The Polo Mk. 2

Another week, another installment of Hecklerspray's Rubbish Cars We Love. This time our boy Chris Laverty takes on the second-generation Volkswagen Polo, a wee runabout that never made it to our shores, but boasted a ripping sixty horsepower and a...


Polo For US Market? VW Is Mulling the Option

What would you say to the option of the tiny but tossable Volkswagen Polo making it's way to the shores of the United States? If you're like us, you'd be more excited in an R32 model, but still it's interesting. Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn...


Polo Colt? Will Dodge Sell a Rebadged VW Subcompact?

With DCX and Volkswagen having finalized a minivan-collaboration deal earlier this month, there's now an eye toward a possible below-the-Caliber entry-level Dodge based on Volkswagen's Polo. Since the Caliber and its Compass sibling have slightly...


Go Blue! Volkswagen's Diesel-Sipping Polo Gets 72 mpg

Imagine Prius-smoking mileage figures for under 20 grand. That's the MO of Volkswagen's Polo Blue Motion — a hatch that can get around with a sparrow's mouthful of diesel. Introduced at the Geneva show earlier this year, the special Polo...


Volkswagen Polo Coming to the US?

A quick-eyed, though sadly digicamless, tipster caught sight of a red, two-door VW Polo at Santa Monica VW on Santa Monica Blvd: Sorry, no digital photo, but confirmed:


European Ad Watch: The VW Polo GTI Is Not for Beginners

We were just lamenting to one of our comiserants about the lack of VW Polo GTI action in the US. We'd imagine Volkswagen could corner the market on performance subcompacts (or start one) if it brought the Polo GTI to the states. Of course, the...


Volkswagen Launches Polo GTI Cup

The spies were right on — the carmaker of the people is launching the people's racer for the street. The company released info this am about the Polo GTI Cup Edition, a roadgoing version of the company's ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup series car....


New Polo GTI Hits the UK Market

We'd have bet our little sister that by now VW would have brought the Polo GTI to the US to challenge the Scion's dominance among young, sport-minded buyers (and by "little sister" we mean half a sawbuck). After all, the top-line Polo's got a...