New Polo Pics + Info

[Miles Away]

What great piccs Miles Away, on an iPhone to boot....surely a bit of touch up was performed?
Excellent scenery too, Polo looks great, very shiny too

Nah no touch ups Ill probably enhance the red details on the car in those pics when i can be bothered

[totallysour]

And here's my contribution - I changed my order from silver to grey and I love the way it looks with the tinted windows. These were taken early this morning with my trusty iPhone 4.0

What is the smudge on your bonnet? Evident in first two photos so not just a reflection! Needs a bit of a scrub?

Your car looks great, even without sports pack it still looks awesome. Especially against those rolling hills!

[aljobar]

I just noticed something, the manual gear selector is the wrong way around! I guess it's not as important because of the flappy-paddles, but still very frustrating.

[gavs]

Interesting story behind this and I apologise in advance to any of our female members, but this is 100% not intended to be sexist in anyway, this is what I have been told by an engineer involved in the development of a tiptronic gearbox:

Back when Mitsubishi were still making cars locally, they came up with the Ralliart magna, kind of a grown-ups flow on from the EVO, but not really grown p because it had a hideous, boy-racer try-hard hyundai excel style bodykit on it.

One of the things they looked at was the auto gearbox and the way the selector lever operated in "manual" mode. They investigated many of teh car makers around the world as to why some did it the right way (pull-back for upshift, push-forward for down) and others the "wrong" way.

What they found was this: Driving and motorsport enthusiasts understood the concept of pull-back up-shifts because it was carrying your arm with the natural momentum of the car, the same as push down-shifts, you are generally braking so your weight transfer is forwards. Non driving enthusiasts don't understand this concept. To them, if you are driving forwards, you should push forwards. If you are slowing down, you pull backwards. This came about from, of all the car companies, Porsche. Why? Because of the Boxster. When the Boxster debuted the tiptronic gearbox (aka, auto), many of it's core purchasers said that his is how it should operate in their minds. The driving purists who bought the Boxster bought the manual because it was, and still is mind you, one of the best manual gearboxes ever built but those who bought the auto were predominantly women who wanted the Boxster because it was a fancy German convertible, along with men having a mid-life crisis and couldn't drive a manual, let alone tell you what the Le Mans 24 hours was.
Based on this, Mitsubishi supposedly worked out who their core market segment was and decided to leave the "wrong way" tiptronic lever the way it was.

A few enthusiasts who have subsequently come about the ralliart magna since have found that by pulling out the selector switch for teh tiptronic lever and turning it around the other way, results in their tiptronic lever operating the "right" way

So, the next time you get in a car with a sequential/tiptronic selector that works around the "wrong" way, thank the people who will buy that car and are not driving enthusiasts, the same people who will more than likely, just leave the car in "D" anyway.

[Corey_R]

Thanks for the post gavs.

The comments from the various companies research seems to be spot on in my books. It still doesn't stop me from wishing that Volkswagen had the DSG the "correct" way. In this day and age, you'd think that you'd have an option in the MFI to switch the way it operates!!!

However, since we have the paddles, and since they're not too hard to upgrade to larger paddles if you so desire (and I did), I can honestly say that I've never even used the tiptronic lever. I drove my R around all the time in M and love it

[gavs]

Yeah exactly. If there were no paddles, it would be nice to have it around the right way but with the paddles there, makes it null to change it

[aljobar]

Brilliant info, thanks Gavs

[payno]

GTI Joe, Frostee, Gavs...

Did I miss it or are we yet to see any pictures from you guys??

[GTI JOE]

Hey payno, I think I got some shots of mine on page 20 of the New Polo - I've got one! thread

[payno]

Ah seems I did miss it.. very nice.

Looks strangely similar to my car.. but it seems to be lacking in the doors department.