What would your next car be after the Polo GTI?

[Hail22]

A M135i or A45 in a years time. I want a car that i can mod to be quicker than most supercars on the road hahaha

Well if this is to go by anything...the return of the original "sleeping tuners" could be on the cards...Subaru are stating the New WRX arriving in March will be around the $42/44k drive away. If the looks stay the same...Stuff the Renault nice little everyday shopping trolley to compliment my other mechanical babies:

[readerr0r]

You know it'll look more like the camo version

[Hail22]

You know it'll look more like the camo version

La la la not listening *blocks ears* >.<...I know...dammit...

[THE_EGG]

Is anyone considering a Citroen DS3 Sport? Same 1.6L Turbo engine (albeit detuned - nothing a remap couldn't fix) and transmission as the Mini Cooper. Funky looks and shape etc. They are pretty reasonably priced too.

The best bit is that the only gearbox available is.........manual.

I can vouch for the DS3 No reliability issues at all, I only had a slightly wobbly driver's side-skirt and they fixed that when I pointed it out. I moved on to the DS3 from a Polo TDI, best choice I ever made hehe. It actually feels a LOT faster than the specs point out as well. I think the my13 models come with sat-nav and leather etc as well. I was going to go for a 208 Sport but the DS3 is really different so decided on that.

[staz88]

You know it'll look more like the camo version

But I want yellow exhaust pipes dammit!

[BLN355]

You know it'll look more like the camo version

lol looks like a Prius, the concept looks horn.

Why VW, why did you not do an AWD 2l manual Polo R and bring them to Aus?

[readerr0r]

lol looks like a Prius, the concept looks horn.

Why VW, why did you not do an AWD 2l manual Polo R and bring them to Aus?

They did a 2L Manual Polo R, just didnt bring it to Aus (or make it in RHD at all)

http://www.volkswagen.de/content/med...rc_katalog.pdf

[BLN355]

They did a 2L Manual Polo R, just didnt bring it to Aus (or make it in RHD at all)

http://www.volkswagen.de/content/med...rc_katalog.pdf

The AWD bit was more so what I was getting at, I know about the Polo R

I was hoping it was going to happen after seeing the Audi A1 300 quattro or whatever it was called, not sure why they wouldn't run the same drive train. Probably would have been too epic of a hot hatch for the world to comprehend :p

[Diesel_vert]

Or rather, given the list price for a Polo R WRC is EUR 33 900 (or AUD 49 000) in Germany, no sane person would spend that much on a Polo, especially considering a Mk7 Golf GTI (also with 2.0 litre engine, 3 doors and a manual gearbox) has a list price of EUR 28 675 (AUD 42 000).

I imagine if VW were to develop a Polo R with AWD, it would break into the EUR 35 000 (AUD 50 000) barrier and beyond... which is getting rather close to Golf R territory - along with a whole host of other performance cars in that price range.

[gavs]

Or rather, given the list price for a Polo R WRC is EUR 33 900 (or AUD 49 000) in Germany, no sane person would spend that much on a Polo, especially considering a Mk7 Golf GTI (also with 2.0 litre engine, 3 doors and a manual gearbox) has a list price of EUR 28 675 (AUD 42 000).

I imagine if VW were to develop a Polo R with AWD, it would break into the EUR 35 000 (AUD 50 000) barrier and beyond... which is getting rather close to Golf R territory - along with a whole host of other performance cars in that price range.

Plus it's no real performance leap over the GTI until you're up over 160 kph and even then, it's not like it is a daylight gap to the GTI, more like a car length at best.