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Volkswagen closed the registrations for the second season of the highly acclaimed Polo Cup India with a record breaking 1,598 entries. Budding racers and motorsports enthusiasts from across India have entered the race towards a chance to be part of this exciting series and maybe even become India’s next Polo Cup Champion. The selection process [...]

Volkswagen has announced an increase in the price of the Polo. Starting January 1, 2011 the will witness a hike starting at 2.9%. Customers, who book the Polo until December 31, 2010, will be able to avail the car at the present prices. The Polo was launched in India in March 2010 and has already [...]

Volkswagen launched the ‘power packed’ 1.6 version of the Polo today. Priced at Rs 6.16 Lakhs (Ex showroom Delhi), the Polo 1.6 will be powered by a 1.6 litre 4 cylinder petrol engine with an output of 105PS @ 5250 rpm and a torque of 153NM @ 3750 rpm and is expected to return a [...]

  Car tested: 2010 Volkswagen Polo Diesel Comfortline Price OTR Mumbai: 6,76,545/- MotorBeam rating: The mid size hatch segment is boiling and options are numerous. Few cars stand out from the crowd and one of them is the globally successful Volkswagen Polo. Volkswagen have been through an extremely aggressive ad campaign and its spelling out [...]

The much awaited Volkswagen Polo 1.6 can be booked now at a VW showroom near you. Yes, the German automaker has started taking bookings for the 1.6-litre petrol Polo which will be available in the top of the line, ‘Highline’ variant only. The 1598cc engine produces 103.5 bhp of power at 5250 rpm and 15.6 [...]

Volkswagen held a stunt show at the Inorbit mall parking lot in Malad, Mumbai. The car for the stunt was none other than multiple times COTY winner, the Polo. The stunt show, better known as the Polo Ultimate drive experience was performed by Ronny Wechselberger. Ronny is world’s top action performer and works at Volkswagen [...]

Volkswagen India will ramp up the output of the Polo to clear order backlog, which has now crossed 5,700 units within two months of launch. The company rolled out the hatchback in March and has sold 1,599 units so far, out of a total booking of 7,300 cars. Currently it has a waiting period of [...]

Car tested: 2010 Volkswagen Polo 1.2L Petrol Comfortline Price OTR Mumbai: 5,64,669/- MotorBeam rating: Volkswagen’s serious entry into India is via the Polo and its success is crucial for the success of the company in India. The German firm has left no stone unturned to spread the word about its new offerings with mega ad [...]

Volkswagen is rejoicing over the success of the Polo. The company has confirmed bookings of 5,000 units of the Polo, with 500 units already delivered. As usual there has to be some demand supply miss match to create over-demand (read success) situation to the public. Keeping that in mind, the Volkswagen Polo is having a [...]

The 2010 World Car of the Year has been declared at the 2010 New York Auto Show and the 59 international journalists chose the Volkswagen Polo to be the winner. Other finalists were the Toyota Prius and Mercedes-Benz E-Class. The Audi R8 took the performance car of the year award, whereas the design award went [...]