Volkswagen Polo 2014 Car Review

No other small car offers a more premium and posh image than the Volkswagen Polo standing here beside me and now VW have decided to up the entry in the segment by offering a much more powerful diesel engine along with certain changes to the styling. Well we play some music for you while you play the game of spot the difference for yourself.

Well one of the nicest and the deepest boot you will find in a small car, it’s really square shape which really helps loading that big suitcase and the best part of course is that suspension intrusion is very minimal. There is bit of a loading lip but this is not really too much, ideal for that highway trip.

Well Volkswagen Polo should seriously consider advertising the solid thump that comes from these doors because no other small car in this category shuts with the more confidence inspiring thump like this one does and this cabin is really all about build quality and fantastic materials used in fact the Polo offers the best cabin experience in terms of quality and materials. Everything is really really put together. Everything is very solidly put together. Even the plastics on the lower end of the dashboard feel very up market, don’t feel cheap at all and there is absolutely no cost cutting inside the cabin of the Polo. The Black, the Beige and little bit of Chrome really works very well inside the cabin, it looks very classy, this being the top of the line version comes with Twin Airbags, ABS and Climate Control along with this Stereo which gets Bluetooth connectivity for your Phone as well as USB and an aux output. It’s a very practical cabin to be in, you get cup holders over here, you also get a nice tray inside over here and there is one shelf over here to put your I-Phone and the Glove box is really big, it can actually hold one small bag in there and that really does help practicality, even the door bins have got big bottle holders, you can actually store 1 Liter bottle in them. Well the Polo is one of those few small cars with the steering actually adjust for reach as well as Rick and that along with the height adjustable seat which means you can get that nice and comfortable driving position without too much fuss. It’s a new steering wheel that they have put in the new Polo, of course it’s a flat bottom steering wheel, it does feel very sporty to hold, it also has the telephone control in it as well as the stereo controls because this of course is the top of the line version.

Well I am at the back seat of the new Polo now and Volkswagen haven’t really done too much to improve its leg room, I have adjusted the front to my height which for reference is 5’10” and as you can see I have got just about the decent leg room, head room is pretty good though and because this car is very wide car, its genuinely a wide car, you can actually sit 3 in comfort here, its wide enough, for the 3^rd passenger who will sit in the middle. The down size is the door pockets are very very shallow, you can’t really hold any bottles in them and there are no pockets at the back, on the front back rest to put those magazines or some thing else like that on that journey. Here is also no armrest and on the downside this beige can get dirty really fast. You will have to send this car to the dry cleaners very often but as I said, quality levels again very good, material feels very nice and the seat themselves are very comfortable, very supportive, the seat scab are very very comfortable and the back rest angle is also very good.

Well this new 1.5 L engine is much more responsive and much more refined then the last 1.2 L unit which Volkswagen offered on the Polo and it has more power, it’s got 90 BHP of power and 230 NM of torque which is pretty good considering the category of this car in and responsiveness also is much more improved than the previous car, when you want to overtake that slow moving vehicle, all you need to do that is just shift one gear down and just press the accelerator and things really move very fast. The gear box also is very very slick and it’s very crisp in terms of operation. Well the suspension feels a little stiff when you are in the city and that means the some of the portals do enter the cabin and there is bit of a thump from the suspension coming in. Well, where the Polo excels is on the highway, the high speed ride is really reassuring, it is very very stable and it really does feel very confident when you are pushing it on the highway and when you exceeds speeds of 120 130 KMPH, it really does feel very very stable. In fact when you are on the highway doesn’t really feel like you are driving a small car, it feels like you are driving a much bigger car, stability is in fact much better then some mid size sedans and that really shows the kind of engineering that VW have put in this small Polo. Well the new steering wheel feels really good to grip and Volkswagen Polo have light it up quite nicely so when you are in the city, it’s really light for town travel which makes parking in to tight slot a breeze but of course if its ultimate driving pleasure you will looking at, then you will be a little dis-appointed, the Suzuki Swift still holds its own in terms of over all driving dynamics.

If you are in the market for a premium Hatch Back, which offers you a very sophisticated look out side, a classy cabin on the inside and a very very comfortable ride along with the powerful diesel engine then this Volkswagen Polo is ideal for you and also the fact that it has the very desirable VW Badge means that the resale value will be very strong making this a very very comparative package in the premium Hatch Back segment.