APR Polo GTI - This months Motor mag (JUN)

[pologti18t]

There is a comparo of modified cars in this month's Motor Mag (Jun)

APR supplied their Polo GTI and GOlf GTI.

Laptimes of the Polo are impressive.

Essentially you are getting a Focus RS performance car from a 1.4L engine

[Corey_R]

Yes... or looking at it another way, you're getting Ford Focus RS performance, but from a "nicer finished car" for 2/3 of the price (that's after the APR "handling" and "performance" packages).

It's an impressive article.

[Gambit]

cant wait
I am trying very hard not to mod the bejesus out the polo.
Don't think i can hold back any longer.. looking forward to the read.

[Guy_H]

Should be on the news stands around the country now.

[Gambit]

Read the article and well done, great effort.

[GTI JOE]

Yeah ditto on the article, well done Guy, very impressive and well presented. When will you be publishing ECU stage 1 pricing?

[way]

I love everything about Guy's PoGo, with the exception of the tyre scrapping.

[alias_vw]

Yeah, I'd be interested to know more about the scraping comment. Guy?

[Guy_H]

The tyre issue was we could only get 215/45 17's (instead of 40 series), so our ride height was a tad low in the front for this profile (measured about an extra 15mm in diameter), so rubbed on hard cornering.

When I say hard cornering, you can see from the photo's that one or two wheels in the air was pretty common

Anyway, we have 215/40's on & raised the front 5 mm & no rub

Mind you, that test was the first time the car had ever seen the track, normally we have a little more than 5 weeks to build & test a car!

[alias_vw]

Thanks for the clarification Guy.

I mainly asked because I'm about the drop some dollars for the same wheels and am waiting on my H&R coilovers to arrive from the UK