2018 Volkswagen Polo | Full Review 

I feel like locally produced cars should cost less where they are made compared to overseas. Let’s get behind local.

Hi , i have the pleasure driving a 5 year old Polo Vivo1.6 what a lovely car , the new Polo range great great great

Nice video...pls do a review of the 2018 vw polo vivo

A normal aspiration 4 cylinder 1.5l Mazda 2 gives you 6.3l per 100km and it costs less too and you have an option to put leather.... not forgetting that it is imported

Saved up R150k, got me a 2008 BMW 523i A/T e60, 118k milage, @ R133k 2 years back. Got extended warranty and changed front shocks and tires for R20k. Have been to Durbs on numerous occations and Cape once from JHB, no fuss no complaints, only when I drop R912 per tank on fill ups. Other than that its more car than this Polo. R300K+, just why do people do this to themselves?

Can you please make a video detailing the difference between the trendline and comfortline

Love this car!!🙌🙌

Great review

I average 6.3l/100km without even trying in typical daily Gauteng (60% stop/go) traffic in my Fiesta Ecoboost 1.0, and I have averaged 5.8 for a month when I deliberately took it easy just to see what was possible. So 7.2l/100 is definitely not at the low end of the spectrum in my book, in fact, I'd be very upset with that figure as that's what my Hyundai i20 1.6 got without breaking a sweat. I sat in one of these new Polo's yesterday as they were on show in Irene Mall, and it's definitely a very premium looking car on the inside, I'll give them that, but there's no way I'll pay R300K+ for a polo, or for any car in that segment, unless it's the Hot Hatch version. MAYBE if it had all the extras as standard you could make a case for it at that price as some other brands come close to R300k, but then their cars are way better specced, but for me it's just not an option... With R300k you can get WAY better cars, that are almost new in the used market. It just doesn't make sense to me. I don't know why Polo's sell as well as they do, they didn't even make my top 3 last time I bought a car.... But each to their own I guess, and knowing South Africans, many people will be eating baked beans on toast... but a new Polo they shall drive... VW knows this, and will make LOADS of money because of it. Very nice review as always!

Great vid

You guys need your own tv show I think

Nice car.i love vw. I hope after sales and sparepart in my country indonesia

That’s much money for a car it’s going to be produced in South Africa 😳😳😳😳

I want one Looks fun to drive

What is the point of such a high sprung 3 cyl 1.0 turbo motor if it isn't that efficient? I have a higher output 1.6l that gets the same consumption (combined)

Thanks for the fantastic review Ciro!

I have just bought one of this and I don't know how to turn on the front low lights, those small sides blocks LED any help?

Could you please review the Polo Beats edition

Lol. Was the guy driving past at 5:18 taking a picture or video?

Am buying this car next year

I simply cannot agree with the price. Honestly, this is getting out of hand!

Did I miss the bit about the gearbox options?

I absolutely love mine!

Brilliant review. Can you just include a brief moment where you mash the pedal in your reviews.

he's.,.. really good

Can you turn off start/stop?

What songs are used in this video?

7:58 Reminds me of when I took my one colleague for a drive in a VW with a 110kW 1.4TSI engine and 6-speed DSG. I asked the colleague to guess what capacity the engine is, and the guess was a 2.0.

Did it have easy light steering?

Have to wait for May for Rline, LEDs headlights and Sunroof

Nice car - great review. The specs and prices for the Australian model have just been released and the car here will be around about 20% cheaper here than in South Africa. Cannot quite work that one out.

No country buys more Polo's than RSA.

As a blind person from Bergvliet, Cape Town I would like to share some of my opinions on this. I honestly think that for a hatchback like this the price is way too high. in terms of the engine and transmition I would stick with petrol as fuel for small cars like this (I believe diesel should be used in buses like the Kombi/Caravelle and bakkies like the Isuzu KB and Toyota Hilux), and I would stick with a manual (I tend to be old-school, although I was born in 1994), although there are some cars out there that I would prefer with an automatic. In terms of engine size and number of cylinders I'll never go with an engine that has less than 4 cylinders and an engine size of 1.6 litres, I could push it to 1.4 l and 1.3 l in some cases. My favourite modern hatchbacks from Vw will always be the Golf 4, 5 and 6 with the 1.6 litre petrol engine and the 2002-2009 Polo (before it was called the Polo Vivo) with the 1.6 litre petrol engine (I especially like the pre-facelift versions).

Pricing on the Radio is wrong. That R12000 is for a Satnav unit

at 300k? Rather just get a used polo GTI or Golf 7 GTI

Song 4:39?

Nice csr

Frustration for me is not being allowed to chose a different set of mag wheels on the Highline, you may not say for example "can I please get the R-Line wheels (but not the body-kit) as I want a tow bar.."

The price is nothing short of nuts. VWSA is not being a day light robber, they just exploiting the market which S.Africans will buy in because of the VW badge. For S.Africans, it is okay to be in debt for a life time to have a car that has a premium badge on. Look close enough...you will find specials that dealers are offering to push sales of brand new Polo GTI's for the price of this car all optioned out.

Not to bad but eish the price. Could we possibly get a review on the Tuscon Sport (SA version)

Those day time running lights looks like something you can buy at Auto Zone or Midas.

7,2 l/100km? How the heck are you driving? Our 2015 Octavia station wagon, with the 1.2 TSI motor, averages 6.1 (after around 20-30 min from cold start) in the middle of swedish winter!

Seems VW has kept boosting Polo strata global wide. And where would Golf be....?

Ridiculous price tag for a locally produced car.

One thing I would say about this car is that the 1.0L turbo has absolutely nothing going on before 2000 RPM, unlike with naturally aspirated larger engines (and some other turbo engines). If you are below 2000 RPM in any gear besides 1st, the car won't accelerate, even with your foot to the floor.

You can buy a New Mazda CX5 6 speed auto for the same price and it does 6 litres per 100km.

" POLO! A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL" they should pay you for that

So then I'm guessing The Polo GTI will then be pushing +400K :(

Ridiculous that there's no leather option even in 2018!

The price is way too high, they need to cut it .. I mean, assembled in South Africa after all. :/

2:48 he referred to a citi golf??🧐

At that price I can probably get a decent POLO GTi...hmm

Yoh top of the range with no sunroof

Greetings from Bergvliet, Cape Town. The price is way tto steep and I don't like these 1 litre engines either. I would rather take either a Golf 4/5/6 or a Polo (before being called the Polo Vivo) with the straight-forward 1.6l petrol engine and a straight-forward manual gearbox.

any new safety features against hijacking, theft?

No leather? Magitsa fave

I disagree with the pricing only.

its a polo, whats all the fuss about... still appealing to the worst drivers in GP?

Interior does feel more premium than my 1.2 tsi, but exterior looks boring.. Maybe the R-line will be better

The front look like a Golf 7 a Mini version

I can get a opel astra 1.4 enjoy for 341k with nearly all the bells and whistles. And a bigger car. Why spend this on a small vw?

This or a Suzuki Ciaz?

Or you can get a Focus ST mk2 for half the price...which has leather seats

please ...review....thar..off-road......drive

My fiesta st get's 5.7/100km however the new Fiesta's coming up later this year are going to kick this polo crappies off the road.

With this car, there's no need for the Golf.

PDC - R31.50

I would never spend that much on a polo🤞

... Marco ?

It's a very nice car but I would still get a 3 year old Volvo V40 Auto, cheaper than the top spec Polo.

Where's the diesel engine in this Polo?

everything was going fine until you started bad mouthing the Beetle

It's got drum brakes at rear!!

What do you recommend I buy ciro I’m at university right now 1st year @cars.co.za

I had a look at this..and I've found too many design floors...not good at all

7.2l/100km is pretty high for a 1.0 engine...

thats one sexy looking car

A sunroof isn't a new thing, don,t understand why a highine doesn't have one

Used GTI 6 PRICE TAG .

I get 6.3L/100km out of my Fiesta 1.0L Trend ecoboost and 6.5 out of my 1.6 Vivo around my suburb in Durban (hilly)

3rd comment!

02:22 Yes I want a manual polo, im not american, dont want any auto car.

"Ciro, it looks good..." -Said no one ever XD

Have they started hijacking them yet? 😂

The next generation polo will be half a million rand..and the polo vivo will be R300k base..by that time VW would introduce a new entry level car with a price of the current vivo.. I'm no longer interested VW,I guess I'm no longer your target market.

A two door would be nice.

Rather get mazda cx3

Good video, mediocre car and overpriced (personal opinion) but by far the worst is that hair on the lens during the first few shots of the car!

Ridiculous price its no way near what we anticipated what we saw on the internet(based in looks)...those headlights are ugly AF where r the led lights? The headlights that they review this car with in europe makes the polo unique but nooooo.. not in south Africa even if the car is produced locally with no led lights no leather so it means they still going to add more for that? Next thing you know booom 350k for a 1.0 mxm

I wish someone would look into why VW cars are so overpriced considering they are made locally, This polo costs more than I paid for my golf 6 Gti, what a joke! Everyone is more than happy to just pay these massively inflated prices, and then when sales slow down they offer you R60k "trade in assistance"

Can someone pls put a object up my arsenal. I payed 20.000 euro for a used highline. And my mirrors dont even fold. Dont move to the netherlands guys😅🤣🤪

Great car. But it is a bit overpriced !

the price it's higher

I would rather stick with my 1.2 TSI high line. Looks much more better.

This new Polo will appeal more to males between 30 and 40yrs, and females from 21 and up. It is not a funky weekend out for guys between 20 and 30 yrs of age.

A Clio 1.2 turbo 88kw automatic with sat nav and all other bells and whistles including LED lights even costs R50k less and its imported. The Polo is the very definition of overpriced and rip-off. Ridiculous. Will wait for new Fiesta pricing.

that is ridiculous in price. whats this world coming to.

VW says there won't be a diesel polo due to our dirty fuel

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