Comments on: [Live photo update] 2010 Volkswagen Polo Mk V unveiled

By: zicolofoo

zicolofoo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:35:41 +0000

Never understand why in North America we never have those good looking models available, whether it’s European or Japanese. What are the marketing people thinking!!!

By: stugots

stugots — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:53:16 +0000

Gallery works brilliantly for me. Fast, great images. mayer_ray_nagin, maybe computers aren’t your strong suit.

By: jandrews90

jandrews90 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:14:30 +0000

@ VR666 – where abouts do you go to college?

By: GMmalvado

GMmalvado — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:00:42 +0000

OOH! I know this is old but I never commented so I LIKE!!! But it’s a VW, which = bad reliability, so a 36 mo. lease sounds good for me!

By: ahnuconun

ahnuconun — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:51:25 +0000

I worked for various VW dealers in the past 8 years. All I can say is FINALLY!!! I can’t tell you how many of our customers came back from Europe and said, “There’s Polos all over the place over there, how come you don’t have any.” Time to put the MkIV “City” Golf and Jetta out to pasture – they sucked huge (and that’s why I left VW). BTW, being made in Mexico is not such a bad thing since it is meant for the North American market, but if they imported one of their local market cars here, VW would be sorry.

By: SERSteve

SERSteve — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:49:25 +0000

This will almost have to be built in Mexico to keep the price down, if they build it in Europe or the US the labor costs will make it cost too much. I don’t see a problem with it being built in Mexico, if it turns out to be poorly built it will most likely be because of the design, not because of where it’s built.

By: VR666

VR666 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:50:07 +0000

I wanted a Mazda 3 hatch before. Now I’ll take this as my car for when I’m out of college. In 2 years all kinks will be worked out anyways. Woot for me!

By: HyundaiSmoke

HyundaiSmoke — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:26:29 +0000

When I get my next gen Accent (Highly modified Hyundai i20) I will be happy to race a Polo. Nice work VW , nice work.

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:51:45 +0000

Zcarsales,
i find kinda funny when we go in a car dealer trying to negotiate, and the salespeople get pissed off when we don’t like their first offer. I’ve also noticed that this happens the most at chrysler and ford dealers. The only places where we meet “actual” nice salesmen are at lexus, audi, and mercedes. everyone else had that fake nice appearance that is so frikin noticeable that its uncomfortable for us. I can’t imagine how you go about your business, but maybe you are one of those good guys

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:59:21 +0000

The way I see it, VW started out with their smaller offerings. They’re in an odd pickle. At the moment, they have some very large and inneficient vehicles that they’ve never sold a lot of. For the past ten years they haven’t had anything really interesting that was small, aside from when the New Beetle came out and that’s old, old news. Even the Beetle gets shitty mileage with only 150 horsepower. The Golf gets shitty mileage despite being a three door and with only 170 horsepower.

By: Zcarsales

Zcarsales — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:33:44 +0000

@A4

Out of sheer curiousity, what do you expect out a salesman? Hell, can anyone answer this question. The economy is at a standstill right now, and do everything I can to be knowledgable about the product I sell. I’m polite, I look out for the customer’s needs, and I work hard to mate the customer’s needs in a car to whatever particular car fits their life.

What is it? I’m desperate to know.

One of the challenges of selling a European car is that the car is purchased in USD. The dollar is week compared to the Euro. This makes for a hideously small mark up. If its money, there isn’t enough room on the dang things.

By: Timellini

Timellini — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:35:33 +0000

Why would you want a 1,8T when the modern 1,4TSI has the same torque and performance with much better MPG.

This car looks good. Good job VW.

By: VMoney

VMoney — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:46:51 +0000

Overall, the exterior design is clean, conservative, and attractive. However, I agree with cire_1wb that the squarish taillamps don’t quite fit. They make the car look a bit cheaper from the back than from the front. They also do not seem to have anything in common with other current VW taillamp designs.

Although the interior looks upscale, clean, and driver-oriented, it is still somewhat uninspired. I think VW could have pushed a bit more on this model as well as on the new Golf/Rabbit. The new Polo dash seems like a tastefully rehashed Golf Mk3 dash.

By: krautninja

krautninja — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:30:50 +0000

zoom. i highly doubt VW is dumb enough to price this against a mini when they have the GTI to do that. plus this is smaller than the GTI/Rabbit to be pitted against other sub compacts (aveo/yaris) i could see it out pricing the yaris by a slim margin, but not much.

By: A4

A4 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:11:46 +0000

give us a Polo GTI with a 1.8T or a 2.0T and ill go buy one as soon as the idiot salesman knows how to sell me one

By: zoomzoomer

zoomzoomer — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:04:06 +0000

Not an exciting or distinctive design.. the rear end reminds me of the Gen 3 Golf, but not much else looks VW to me. The problem is that VW does fancy itself a premium brand.. which means they’ll probably price the Polo against the Mini Cooper in the US market.. which will force the Rabbit/Golf and Jetta upward, right into the upcoming supposedly lower priced Passat replacement. At this rate, pretty soon VW will have four different sizes of vehicles, all within $5K of each other!

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:35:37 +0000

At least they painted the lower bumper. What is it with the current gen GTI… the lower bumper has to remain that crappy black plastic.

By: RagazzaCompetizione

RagazzaCompetizione — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:34:09 +0000

Imagination Not Allowed.

By: SHOspeed

SHOspeed — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:47:32 +0000

I am not really felling it at all. Its way to plain. The front is alright, but still plain when I got around to the rear end it just looks way to plain. Nothing special.

By: oldraven

oldraven — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:21:21 +0000

On another note, VW made record sales this year and turned a profit.

By: oldraven

oldraven — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:20:16 +0000

Looks good. Like a mini GTi. It’s about time we got the Polo in North America. I can’t remember if it’s the Polo or the Lupo that replaced the Fox (it’s still called that in some regions).

By: fan

fan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:32:10 +0000

apart from the fact that size is overblown for a compact car (but thats what all of todays compacts are), this thing looks good (at least in the marketing trim with big wheels and shiny paintjob)
still, gonna be a hotseller, even if its just for the nameplate and the looks (cant judge anymore than that from now…)

By: Stinky007

Stinky007 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:00:21 +0000

Everybody wishes from “right” prices from VW, but they forget VW thinks it’s a “premium” manufacturer now, so prices will definitely not be in the bottom half of the class…

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:14:41 +0000

It will be good to see some quality small cars. Aveo and Yaris and all that sub $15k lot are trash.

By: Borat

Borat — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:31:36 +0000

Very good looking car. In my opinion that what Golf should look like, not like a pregnant Rabbit. Interior to die for. Why nobody else can comprehend form follows function axiom as well as VW?

By: sean65

sean65 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:15:18 +0000

Instantly one of my favorite sub-compact designs. This is right up there with the MkIV Golf. Well done!

By: orangecones

orangecones — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:10:03 +0000

Really hoping for a Polo in the US soon. I really wonder why they haven’t brought it here years ago, say when the Mk.V Rabbit launched. Assuming build quality will be solid (ie…not Mexican built) it should do well if priced right…. and interior improved (vs the Golf/Jetta interiors).

By: gogogodzilla

gogogodzilla — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:09:15 +0000

I wonder if they’ll offer a GTI version in the States?

By: TomF

TomF — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:27:08 +0000

Where will the US-spec Polo be built? If hecho en Mexico, uh-oh.

By: Zcarsales

Zcarsales — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:21:14 +0000

As a VW salesman, we need this car.

By: cire_1wb

cire_1wb — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:03:12 +0000

I am not quite so sure about the squarish taillights. Other than this, it is a conservatively handsome design for a subcompact product. At least VW didn’t add a garish front end design in a lame attempt to add visual “interest” (like so many of the Japanese auto makers these days). I hope this product eats into Yaris and Fit sales, like some of you have previously mentioned.

Although I think this car is an admirable effort, I do prefer the styling of the new Fiesta. If I was in the market for this size of vehicle, I think I would go with a Fiesta 5-door.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:56:44 +0000

Checked it out. This is really nice. Yeah – I think it looks like a Golf and in a good way. Like Jake said, priced right this could beat the Yaris and Fit handily and do a lot to increase VeeDubs numbers like they need here.

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:51:37 +0000

Anyone else thought they put pictures up of a Gen IV Golf?

If prices on this are low, as in low to mid teens, Toyota should be contemplating its own exit plan out of the US market, at least on the Yaris line.

This could be HUGE.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:49:47 +0000

The gallery here is so dysfunctional and slow I actually got to elsewhere to see the pics and then return here to comment and beat up on you guys.

BRB