2012 Volkswagen Polo

Volkswagen plan on entering the sub-four-metre compact sedan space with the Polo-based sedan. Recently, compact sedans were spotted testing on the NH-4 near Pune. Volkswagen has codenamed the compact sedan as the ICS, and the car will majorly be a Volkswagen Polo with additional boot space.

We are just a short while away from the launch of the facelifted Volkswagen Polo. The car was unveiled at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show in March and has since then has often been spotted on test in India. Follow this story for all the details from the launch!

In a bid to further expand Volkswagen Group's after-sales and spare parts setup in the country, Volkswagen India has announced that its second Part Distribution Centre (PDC) will be functional by the second quarter of 2015. The upcoming facility, located in Bangalore, will join VW’s exiting Gurgaon-based centre set up in 2012.

Volkswagen is bracing up to launch the facelifted Polo soon, meanwhile, sales training documents of the vehicle have been leaked online. The image reveals the choice of powertrains and the power rating of VW’s new 1.5-litre diesel engine that will be introduced in the Polo.

The TSI technology from Volkswagen has received the international engine of the year 2014 award. The engine in question is the 1.4-litre TSI twincharger, which took this award for the ninth consecutive time. Carstem Helbing, head of application EA888 and alternate fuels in the Volkswagen petrol engine development division, took this award.

A new car has joined our fleet and we are painting the town red, with a flash red VW Polo 1.2 TDI Highline. The Polo came to us with 3650km on the odometer and since then it has piled on the miles which now stands at 8000km. I have been a bit greedy with it and have always managed to snap it up on the weekends. In the very first week at work, the car served us to shoot two vehicles and later I took it to receive family from the airport and then to take them around town.

We take a spin in Volkswagen latest little hot hatchback, the GT TDI, to see how much it can live up to the Grand Tourer moniker as well as the mark set by the GT TSI that was launched in April 2013.

With 100bhp turbocharged petrol engine and dual-clutch automatic transmission, this hatchback is certainly not for the masses. Are you then one of the few looking for a niche product?