2017 Volkswagen Polo officially revealed in Germany

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Bigger, all-new Volkswagen Polo range is to be topped by 197bhp GTI; on sale in November
Volkswagen chairman Herbert Diess has unveiled the new sixth-generation Polo at a media reception held at the company’s Wolfsburg headquarters in Germany, revealing an outwardly larger, significantly roomier and more technically sophisticated model than today’s eight-year-old model.
Set for UK deliveries in November following a planned public debut at the upcoming Frankfurt motor show, the 2017-model-year Polo will be produced in five-door hatchback form only, with buyers offered the choice of up to six engines – the most powerful of which endows the range topping turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder powered GTi model planned to see right-hand drive production early next year with a Ford Fiesta ST equalling 197bhp.
The new Polo has been developed from the ground up in an engineering program that also encompasses the mechanical identical fifth-generation Seat Ibiza and yet-to-be-launched fourth-generation Skoda Fabia as well as upcoming production versions of the Volkswagen T-Breeze and Seat Arona.
Key among the compact car competition for the new model is the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa, Renault Clio and Nissan Micra.
Based around the German car maker’s MQB AO platform architecture, the new Volkswagen has grown quite significantly to match the dimensional gains made by many of its more contemporary compact class rivals; it boasts a 94mm longer wheelbase than the fifth-generation Polo at 2564mm, while the track widths are up by 62mm at the front at 1525mm and by 49mm at the rear at 1505mm to provide it with a considerably larger footprint than ever before.
The previous Polo was based around Volkswagen’s PQ25 platform, whose engineering dates back to the fourth-generation model launched back in 2001.

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