Polo + United States = Duh

[audivwdave]

Since gas topped $4 a gallon in the U.S., consumers have been flocking to small cars in record numbers. The dramatic shift caught many automakers off guard, with most scrambling to ramp up their small car efforts in the U.S. Volkswagen was one such automaker that was caught without a true small car, but the German automaker is reportedly considering bringing a version of its Polo to the U.S.

The Polo would go head-to-head with vehicles like the Toyota Yaris and Honda Fit, and would offer U.S. buyers another high-mileage alternative. The Yaris and Fit both average about 31-32 mpg in combined driving, a figure the Polo would meet or exceed.
“We are considering bringing these cars here,” Stefan Jacoby, CEO of VW, told Bloomberg. “It’s too early to give a timeline for when.”

It remains unclear where the U.S.-spec Polos would be built, although VW’s Mexican production facility would be the presumed front-runner, with the recently announced Tennessee plant being another possibility.

In another bit of VW news, Jacoby confirmed that a U.S.-built Passat replacement would bow in 2011, although the new mid-size sedan will not carry the Passat nameplate.
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[Digital K]

oh yes...pleasse?

[SlimMJS]

[Die Frau]

Caught off guard? Honda and Toyota brought these car here last year C'mon VW, get on the ball. I like how they refuse to bring a tried and true platform here, yet they did bring a $80K land yacht. (Pheaton)

[sprstu]

yeah, 3cyl TDi, I'd buy one the week they came out. I'd put my name on the waiting list if they had one.

[audivwdave]

Caught off guard? Honda and Toyota brought these car here last year C'mon VW, get on the ball. I like how they refuse to bring a tried and true platform here, yet they did bring a $80K land yacht. (Pheaton)

Yeah I know seriously I should be working for VW AG cuz really they need a regular persons opinion on this stuff not some tightwad germans attitude about something they dont know schiBe about. Also I forgot about that stupid phaeton thing is it really coming back or was that a brilliant idea they had but now that gas is expensive are they still gonna do it?

[toasted]

If the Polo comes stateside I will buy 3.

[sprstu]

[mrkrinkle]

SEX ON WHEELS.

oh pleeeeeeease do VWoA.

[dustin]

omfg ive been waiting for the polo and lupo for agesssssss >;[

[shaneco13]

Terrible p-shop, but something I guess... tires are WAY too big, and its not low enough, but whatever.....

[dustin]

sexyy

Terrible p-shop, but something I guess... tires are WAY too big, and its not low enough, but whatever.....

[Chaseme]

I think BBS RSs would look at home on the Polo.
And yeah I'd rock one. At least the GTI one.

[Seannabend]

What I can't believe is that 31-32 is considered a "high mileage car"
With the stock engine in my 92 civic I couldn't get lower than 35mpg and I could get over 40 if I was doing mainly freeway driving.
And not to mention that up untill about 2000 honda had a couple different gas engined cars that would get between 40 and 50mpg, one even had a CVT transmission as an option.

And now they consider 31-32mpg as good?

I don't understand what is going on

but with regards to the Polo, yes they should bring it over. But I hear that margins are pretty thin right now for euro cars being sold in the US. There are even europeans that are buying cars from the US and shipping them back because of how weak our dollar is right now and that is hurting the european manufacturers. So I could see them not bringing it here if they determine that they wouldn't make any money on it.

[audivwdave]

Well they are gonna have to build or bring a small car here cuz really every single other car company is selling smaller and cheaper cars than volkswagen ironically.