Exterior: The Volkswagen Polo has grown into a fully fledged car

My boss offered me for two weeks a Polo 1.2 BlueMotion to. This is a good time for a review. Exterior: The Volkswagen Polo has grown into a fully fledged car. The car looks sporty with its angular shapes, low and thick front bumper with lip. The back contrast looks dull and is what 'rushed' into my eyes.

The Polo BlueMotion is slightly reduced, which improves drag. Car doors are a bit on the short side (5-door version). This complicates entry. I am 175 cm tall, kick during frequent trips to the door panel and when boarding the sill. Unfortunately, this provides the necessary damage.

Interior: The interior looks sleek, but sober. The location of the interior finish is on a fairly high level. The materials eyes indeed, but in reality crackling hard. Volkswagen has done his best to make you feel right at home in the car. All the bells and whistles are right where you'd expect. Once you're behind the wheel, you know immediately that you're in a Volkswagen, the typical style of this german is good to recognize. The light switch left the control of the heating, clignoteurs etc. etc. All buttons decent feel through the use of a type of stainless steel / aluminum. This is to be found around the ventilations, the buttons for the heating, around the counters. Also, it is to be found on the wheel.

Radio:

A big failure of the Polo I find the optional radio. The double-din radio Integrates Bluetooth car kit is not equipped with lights. This will made it impossible to operate the radio in the evening hours. The volume knob and back-forward buttons are found blind, but the rest?

The seats are also adjustable in height. Yet I can not quite find my sitting in the car. If I sit too close to the pedals, or I can not put down my arms comfortably. The landing place by the handle is too low, and the upper portion of the panel is too high.
The seats offer good lateral support. I do notice that the edge, sitting shoulder height, is quite annoying after long journeys.

The small Volkswagen is equipped with all kinds of simple boxes under the passenger seat, in the glove compartment is a special double bottom with space for the owner's manual. The Polo is also equipped with a solid arm that tilt to your liking. Also in the armrest has room for a large sunglasses and other items. Under the dashboard, on the right door to find a box for a safety vest. Very well conceived all, as many drivers often have a lot of loose stuff in the car.
Space:

In terms of space, the Polo scored average. In the back, an adult of average height can sit pretty. The person you should not have too far to back his chair. A disadvantage is that you sit very upright. This problem occurs when multiple cars in this class. Anyway, do not buy Polo to transport your offspring.
The trunk of the Polo does not seem very big in the first place. If you take the trunk better studied, you soon find out that there is a double bottom is in. This is of course very nice to put in some small loose items.

The belfry of the Volkswagen Polo has beautiful white dimmable lighting. The counters itself eyes what cheap. One at the speedometer also used a strange layout. From 0 to 50kmpu makes the counter jumps 5kmpu. Over 50, he is suddenly jumps 10kmpu. This can be especially very confusing in the beginning. The onboard computer is intuitive and seems to be reliable. A point of criticism, the onboard computer is in dutch. It includes, among others

- Average consumption per day
- Average consumption
- Instant consumption
- Average speed
- Current speed
- Outside temperature
- Speed Indicator
- Range
- Time
- Additional trip odometer

The engine:

If you start the car, you hardly notice that it is a is diesel. The 1.2 three-cylinder running around nice and quiet. Once you accelerates the break is over, the engine can be heard well under load. Occasionally, you even have the idea that someone has thrown a bucket of nails in the engine. Acceleration is not great, especially in the low rpm range, the engine behaves very lazy. You should definitely suspicious, quick to crawl at a roundabout or junction is not there. From 800-1600 rpm the engine has really suffered from the excessive movements which Volkswagen has applied. 800-1600 speed is still an area where you'd uses a diesel. Once the engine speed once he pulls it firmly. Despite the moderate acceleration times, you have the correct engine speed is not the idea that you're driving a very slow car.

Gearbox:

As mentioned earlier, Volkswagen has fitted a special gearbox with different transmissions. The gearbox can be combined with any regularity operate properly hakerig. The gearshifts are short, but accurate.


Driving behavior:

On the road, the Volkswagen Polo behaves like a full-fledged middle class. The controls are ratified good, but not too light. Bumps in the road are well absorbed by the chassis of the Polo. A point of criticism I think taking a threshold. In taking such a restrictive measure speed, the train rattles properly. You will soon notice that he does not appreciate this very much. The front bumper ensures that you have to reduce considerably the speed at a threshold.

Highway:
not the car pulls much stable on the road, of crosswinds the vehicle is on the highway. Continental tires are audible, I can therefore recommend the purchase, the Continentals replaced for a couple of Michelin's. What really strikes me is the constant resonance in the car caused by the engine. The 'boom' which is continuously audible, your brand especially at low speeds. If I compare with my C1 HDi engine, Volkswagen has a lot to learn. Although the C1 and the Polo totally not comparable, the noise level of the Polo engine is much higher than that of C1.

Consumption:

I've kept a close eye on the Polo in terms of consumption at different speeds. I treated the Polo with the well-known light socket. Yet he can not get much more economical in terms of consumption than 1 in 24. This is not the promised consumption of 1 to 30. Totally a disappointment when you consider that a C1 HDi over 1 gets 28 combined cycle. When the C1 HDi there have been no concessions: reduce, start / stop system, all kinds of side skirts, and spoilers etc. etc.

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Start / Stop system:

The start and stop system is a system to keep consumption low. When you come to drive at a traffic light, put the gear in neutral and release the clutch. The engine then turns off automatically. As soon as the clutch pedal is depressed, the engine starts again automatically. This system I was pretty curious from the very beginning. I had heard that this fact did not function always good. I can indeed say that it is indeed not a regular function. Now I have already read several stories on the internet. He does not seem to operate under certain circumstances.

- With a cold engine
- Air conditioning to

In these circumstances, it functions start and stop system does. But not always. Ok, maybe it is up to the battery voltage? Again, I could not find any regularity.