Volkswagen Up (Team Review) - Fifth Gear 

+madant1977 The 75 hp version is really quick with its small size and weight.

@@daviesjack12 are you joking

​@@tadassmolskas3014I mean the weight/HP Ratio ist Not that bad, somewhere around 1hp/12-13kg

+Guy Random And the car lasts for ever if you change the oil every 8000 miles :D

+Guy Random honest :D

Sorry, but this is NOT a good car. If you want good cars, you buy Japanese.

@@nikolanikola8543 see my reply above .

@@nikolanikola8543 I Agree this Car is SHIT! bad build quality and rubbish engines and Awful auto Gearbox . I fixed so many of these barely hitting 4 years old mainly electrical and mechanical plus this 1.0 engine is just a cheap fest every other 1.0i engine on the market has a timing chain where this has a Belt . And clever use of space? Renault Twingo walks all over it i had mine for 6 years and i could carry an Ikea Flat Pack Ward drobe because you can fold the front passenger seat down .

Chandler Burns it'd be closer to a classic Beetle, too. Fun, affordable, and tiny.

RIP VW Beetle 2019

Are you still satisfied with the car

@@britishentertainment7610 Yes I am , had mine for 10 years

Except they're made in Bratislava.

That's true, but they do transport them to Wolfsburg if you want to pick up your car from the VW Motorwelt, which I did. Saved more than 200€ in delivery costs and was a fun day out.

Very happy with the car, btw.

+Nabend1402 cool. My mum's buying a used Up very soon since her KA was written off. Test drove one yesterday and she really liked it. Reading about the "common faults" with them and the gearbox/clutch issues concern me a little bit.

+MRsjovealek too late,she bought an Up and likes it. Old Toyota Aygos aren't without their problems. VW can't make cars? What would make you say that? They make a lot of excellent cars.

Be happy that you don't get this shit... These things are everywhere in Europe...😂

@@nikolanikola8543 i bet you drive a smart

@@britishentertainment7610 Smart is much better than this

The UP GTI just sounds too silly in my opinion😂... Just take the Golf instead

@@Has7DCT just try driving one and you will see !

@@Has7DCT The golf is just dull in comparision.

Matt Luxton because they're cheaper than Up!

8scatterbrain8 as I said a few hundred quid isn't really much considering the superiority of the Up!

Matt Luxton but they're still cheaper

+Matt Luxton its the same cars omg. same manufacturer

I am fully aware they are the same car however I would choose an Up! over the other two for the reasons I mentioned.

Marc B. Petrol is ALOT more expensive here in the UK, so stop complaining!

Marc B. you don't need small cars, you have huge roads! and americans LOVE SUVs

+Marc B. Geez, wish i lived in the USA. Freakingly cheap Gasoline, you have no ROAD TAX. Yes i pay 75 euro each month just for driving my car on the road. The tax is based on the weight of the car. The up you need to pay 20 euro a month road tax. Cheapest car / luxery ratio. But i don't get it why u get so low MPG with a chevy aveo. My Nissan 350z 3.5 V6 with 280horse power gets me calculated 28mpg. How do you do that? Also the insurance cost is mostly based on the new price. So the UP cost so little and the road tax so low, this is why u see them all over the place. It's the cheapest way to travel around with around 50mpg if u don't have a brick in your foot. The gasoline here has a higher quality than the USA so that's why our engines get higher milage anyway. More octane i guess.

+Herman Willems I wish i knew why my tiny car with a 1.6 or 1.8 L engine only gets 19mpg. Since I bought it, thats all i EVER get. I have had it examined at the dealership like 6 times , and all I EVER get told is that I only drive it like 2-5 miles a day, so 'it never gets up to 'normal operating temp.' ,so it is always running rich' so it using more gas. An excuse I don't buy. All the people I talk to on the 'Chevy Aveo Forum' online say that they get alot higher mpg! But most of them dont drive a lot more annually. Like 12K or more a year, and get higher MPG, but they drive on the highway a lot. I RARELY go on the highway. But they still get 25-30MPG in the city, in the same car, same year, and some are light drivers like me, low miles, on their cars. I only have like 34K miles on the car, after 9.5 years. I drive like 'a little old lady' ,not a dragster, and it is well maintained. So it isnt like I carry around hundreds of pounds of junk in my car, other than me:). it may be a small car, but thats all I EVER get. I use to get 20MPG in my BIG V-6 Ford Ranger truck! I would kill for a VW 'UP' or other 'Micro City car' like you have in Europe, that gets 50MPG. The only 50MPG car WE have is the Toyota Prius, and it isnt worth the cost to buy. One thing breaks on it, (like the generator, instead of a simple alternator0, its $6K to replace!! Thats stupid, and they do fail after like 50K miles. I dont drive on our 'HUGE roads' that we have over hear, as stated above. BTW...They are not that big. And I HATE SUV's! Any small car is overpriced and stuffed with power everything,using up money to buy a simple car. Thats the point of driving a small car, save money on buy it, and driving it. But they are all full of power windows, power locks, 4 wheel drive, traction control, etc, they all break and cost a small fortune to fix. It's planned obsolesces. So..we pay $2.25 - $3.75 depending on OPEC, and we have like 4 cars that MIGHT get 40MPG. You pay more for gas, but have dozens of great looking cars that get 50+ from them. Its all generated by the car makers and OPEC of course. But I just wish we could get the UP and other tiny cars here. They would sell out the day gas goes back up to the $3 range. It is in the low $2 range right now. But when you get 19MPG in a tiny car, it sucks!

+8scatterbrain8 Boy your ignorant. 'WE Americans' don't all love SUVs, and our roads are not HUGE. Ever see LA highways in rush hour, gridlock, and regular highways always have bumper to bumper traffic all day long. could be said 'YOU Europeans' have stupid tiny roads. But I wouldnt say that. Tell your governments to build bigger roads. What about the Autobon? Is that a 2 lane highway? Dont think so.

+Josh Mckinnley U.S. government discretely prevents most cars with >50mpg from selling in the USA. Fossil fuel gigants don't like them.

+Mike MA That isn't true. There are lots of electric vehicles that even get more than 100 MPG such as the Fiat 500E, Nissan Leaf, etc.

+Josh Mckinnley Oil giants hate those too, but have no real investiture in that market and thus don't have any means to lobby against em. Plus, charging them invariably involves at least some amount of fossil fuels along the lines... I had a 2013 Spark, actually. Great car, very fun to drive, horrid build quality. Fell apart at under 20k miles and cost me thousands to write off. The 2009 diesel that replaced it is cheaper per mile. Quieter, too. See, city cars won't catch on in the USA outside of, you know, cities. Highway driving in the Spark (PA to RI) nearly deafened me - although admittedly it did hold all the shopping, and was much safer than a Fiat.

+Josh Mckinnley Because small liberal Euro cars like this would not really sell in the US. In Europe cars face very high taxes and the liberal governments have decreed that smaller cars face less taxation. So guess what happens next people tend to buy smaller cars because that is what they can only afford.

+bighands69 i'd buy one i think it would look good parked next to my f150

they should have put the 1.4 Turbo TSI from the jetta or the 1.8 from the golf

John Earl a GTI version with new suspension, brakes, lowered, and 120 HP turbo engine is on its way😀

Launching the GTI version very soon ..

See my reply above , that is the basic model.

+Le Leedler Little Euro liberal cars do not sell in the US. The US market is about power and comfort and cheap fuel. Euro is all about taxation and the reason people choose these is because they are cheap on tax in Europe. Taxation doubles the price of cars in Europe. Cars are far more expensive in Europe.

I could really see sales of this in the usa going well. Minis area common sight around here and I would say they fall under similar design.

+Le Leedler needs more power

kurt roepke Yes, it could use a good 30 more HP.

+Le Leedler the updated version that is coming later this year will have a 90 hp 1.0 TSI turbo engine available :)

It's a good little round about .

The looks give me nightmares

@@andrewyang9095 never mind , perhaps new glasses would help ?

Fuel economy is about 6L/100Km. And it uses premium fuel. I have no idea why... This equates to about 7.5L/100km running regular fuel. And it only has 55kw...

nope !

@@welshpete12 They are, doesn't mean anything though, just great for the local economy.

No there good cars however I think the polo is better as it's slightly bigger

@@dariusparker894 yes they are , same car only a little bigger

I had three , from new . They used to be very good but the later ones were not so well made .

Feb 2016 I think this video was shot in 2012.

Cheap? I've been driving mine for 4 years on potholed roads and it still refuses to rattle. Amazing quality for such a low purchase price

because the world is a little bit larger than USA......

djmhyde This guy gets it.

@Gibbon USA has the strongest economy in the world

hyylo up was too.

hyylo up was too.

nobody asked