2023 (23) Volkswagen Polo 1.0 TSI Life 5dr DSG
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Vehicle summary
Mileage | 7422 miles |
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Year | 2023 |
Fuel | Petrol |
Gears | Automatic |
Engine | 999 cc |
WLTP CO2 emissions | 125 g/km* |
Road tax | £190** |
Doors | 5 |
Seats | 5 |
Body type | Hatchback |
Colour | Silver |
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Featured specification
- Digital Cockpit
- Rain sensor
- Bluetooth mobile phone interface
- DAB Digital radio
- Front and rear 6 speakers
- 2 USB-C ports in the front
- 2 USB-C charging sockets on the center console in the rear
- Isofix child seat preparation easy-fit (for two outer rear seats
- and front passenger seat) compatible with I-size
- Heat insulating darkened glass in side and rear windows
- Light and vision pack - Polo
- Wireless app connect
Standard specification
Driver Convenience
Adaptive cruise control with follow-to-stop and speed limiter | Bluetooth mobile phone interface |
Driver alert system | Emergency call service |
Front assist system | Power assisted speed sensitive steering |
Preparation for We connect and We connect plus | Speedo and rev counter, electronic odometer, trip, service interval display and fuel gauge |
Standard rear axle | Travel Assist - Lane keeping system and traffic jam assist |
Travel assist including emergency assist | Trip computer |
Warning signal and warning light for front and rear seatbelts not fastened | Washer fluid level indicator |
Wireless app connect |
Engine/Drivetrain/Suspension
Front wheel drive | Rear shock absorpion |
Start-stop system with battery regeneration (recuperation - energy recovery during braking) |
Entertainment
DAB Digital radio | Diversity antenna for FM reception |
Front and rear 6 speakers |
Exterior Features
Automatic dimming interior rear view mirror | Body colour bumpers |
Body colour door handles | Body colour door mirrors |
Electric front windows | Heat insulating darkened glass in side and rear windows |
Heat insulating glass windscreen | Power folding adjustable/heated exterior mirrors and front passenger exterior mirror lowering function |
Rain sensor | Rear electric windows |
Rear fog light | Rear side wing doors |
Rear windscreen washer and wiper with interval delay | Third brake light |
Interior Features
12V power socket in centre console | 2 front and 2 rear reading lights |
2 USB-C ports in the front, 2 USB-C charging sockets on the center console in the rear | 3 rear head restraints |
60/40 split folding rear seat and rear seat bench not split | Chrome plated radiator grille inserts, air vent surrounds and light switch surrounds |
Door and side trim panel | Driver and front passenger seat height adjustment |
Driver/passenger sunvisors with illuminated vanity mirrors | Front centre armrest |
Front seat backrest storage pockets | Front standard seats |
Handbrake lever handle in leather | Hartley/Thomas cloth upholstery |
Headliner in recycled material | Isofix child seat preparation easy-fit (for two outer rear seats, and front passenger seat) compatible with I-size |
Leather trimmed gear knob | Luggage compartment cover |
Luggage compartment floor | Luggage compartment lighting |
Single front passenger seat | Standard pedal cluster |
Three spoke leather wrapped multifunction steering wheel with shifting paddles |
Packs
Light and vision pack - Polo |
Passive Safety
3 point height adj front seatbelts + pretensioners | 3x3 point rear seatbelts |
ABS | Driver and front passenger airbag with front passenger airbag deactivation |
Drivers and front passengers safety optimised head restraints | ESC (Electronic stability control) + EDL (Electronic Differntial lock) and ASR (Traction control) |
Extended and predictive pedestrian/ cyclist protection | Front curtain and side airbags with center airbag |
Front disc brakes | Hill hold control |
Manual child lock in rear doors | Rear drum brakes |
Single tone horn | Tyre pressure loss indicator |
Security
Alarm with interior protection | Anti-theft alarm system with interior monitoring, backup horn, and towing protection |
Anti-theft wheel bolts | Electronic engine immobiliser |
Trim
Lava stone black gloss/matt decorative inserts in dash and front door panels |
Wheels
Low rolling resistance tyres |
Technical specification
Emissions - ICE
Standard Euro Emissions | EURO 6 | WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb | 125 |
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WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb - TEH | 134 | WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb - TEL | 125 |
Engine and Drive Train
Camshaft | DOHC | Catalytic Convertor | True |
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CC | 999 | Compression Ratio | 11.5:1 |
Cylinder Layout | IN-LINE | Cylinders | 3 |
Cylinders - Bore (mm) | 74.5 | Cylinders - Stroke (mm) | 76.4 |
Engine Code | DLAC | Engine Layout | FRONT TRANSVERSE |
Fuel Delivery | TURBO DIRECT INJECTION | Gears | 7 SPEED |
Number of Valves | 12 | Transmission | SEMI-AUTO |
Fuel Consumption - ICE
WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Comb - TEH | 5.9 | WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Comb - TEL | 5.5 |
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WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Extra High - TEH | 6 | WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Extra High - TEL | 5.5 |
WLTP - FC (l/100km) - High - TEH | 5.2 | WLTP - FC (l/100km) - High - TEL | 4.8 |
WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Low - TEH | 7.3 | WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Low - TEL | 7.3 |
WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - TEH | 5.8 | WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - TEL | 5.4 |
WLTP - MPG - Comb - TEH | 47.9 | WLTP - MPG - Comb - TEL | 51.4 |
WLTP - MPG - Extra High - TEH | 47.1 | WLTP - MPG - Extra High - TEL | 51.4 |
WLTP - MPG - High - TEH | 54.3 | WLTP - MPG - High - TEL | 58.9 |
WLTP - MPG - Low - TEH | 38.7 | WLTP - MPG - Low - TEL | 38.7 |
WLTP - MPG - Medium - TEH | 48.7 | WLTP - MPG - Medium - TEL | 52.3 |
General
Badge Engine CC | 1.0 | Badge Power | 95 |
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Coin Description | TSI | Coin Series | Life |
Generation Mark | 6 | Insurance Group 1 - 50 Effective January 07 | 9E |
Manufacturers Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years | 12 | Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years | 3 |
NCAP Adult Occupant Protection % | 94 | NCAP Child Occupant Protection % | 80 |
NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09 | 5 | NCAP Pedestrian Protection % | 70 |
NCAP Safety Assist % | 70 | Service Interval Frequency - Months | 12 |
Service Interval Mileage | 9300 | Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage | 60000 |
Standard manufacturers warranty - Years | 3 | Vehicle Homologation Class | M1 |
Performance
0 to 62 mph (secs) | 11.3 | Engine Power - BHP | 95 |
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Engine Power - KW | 70 | Engine Power - PS | True |
Engine Power - RPM | 5000 | Engine Torque - LBS.FT | 129 |
Engine Torque - MKG | 17.8 | Engine Torque - NM | 175 |
Engine Torque - RPM | 1600 | Top Speed | 116 |
Test Cycles
Emissions Test Cycle | WLTP | RDE Certification Level | RDE 2 |
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Tyres
Alloys? | True | Tyre Size Front | 185/65 R15 |
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Tyre Size Rear | 185/65 R15 | Tyre Size Spare | TYRE REPAIR KIT |
Wheel Style | ESSEX | Wheel Type | 15" ALLOY |
Vehicle Dimensions
Height | 1451 | Length | 4074 |
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Wheelbase | 2552 | Width | 1751 |
Weight and Capacities
Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres) | 40 | Gross Vehicle Weight | 1650 |
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Luggage Capacity (Seats Down) | 1380 | Luggage Capacity (Seats Up) | 351 |
Max. Loading Weight | 526 | Max. Roof Load | 75 |
Max. Towing Weight - Braked | 1000 | Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked | 590 |
Minimum Kerbweight | 1124 | No. of Seats | 5 |
Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb | 10.7 |
Independent review
Review courtesy of Car and Driving
Volkswagen Polo
The sixth generation Volkswagen Polo has been much improved in this updated form. Jonathan Crouch takes a look.
Ten Second Review
The Volkswagen Polo supermini model line is one of the most successful in supermini history. This improved version of the MK6 design is more advanced than before and comes with a smarter, more up-market look. Features like a digital instrument panel and a whole raft of camera-driven safety and autonomous driving kit also borrow much from the class above.
Background
Why would you buy a Volkswagen Polo? You wouldn't buy it on price, because there are many rival superminis that cost less. Many of these cars will have more equipment inside them. Some will even be nicer to drive. That much-vaunted Volkswagen build quality is, statistically at least, something that the Japanese and Koreans covered off some time ago. So what's the appeal? It's simple. The Polo is all about understated refinement or, to put it another way, conspicuously not trying too hard to impress. Now this is a very hard trick to carry off. Try too hard and this Volkswagen loses its cool. Don't try hard enough and the car looks like a complacent trinket for posers, which is possibly even less desirable. So with this improved sixth generation Polo, the Wolfsburg brand is looking to land it square in that profitable sweet spot.
Driving Experience
Volkswagen always intended that this sixth generation Polo should ride like a much larger car and sure enough it does, easily shrugging off pock-marked urban surfaces, helped by its sophisticated light, stiff MQB A0 chassis, shared with cousins SEAT's Ibiza, Audi's A1 and Skoda's Fabia. Through the corners, this Polo isn't quite as agile as that SEAT or a rival Ford Fiesta - the rather light steering doesn't deliver a huge amount in terms of meaningful feedback - but body movements are well controlled and wider tracks deliver plenty of front end grip. A class-leading feature available across the Polo range is Volkswagen's clever assist system 'IQ.DRIVE Travel Assist', which brings together predictive ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) and Lane Assist to create a new assist system that enables partly automated driving. As for engines, well almost all buyers in our market are going to order a Polo with petrol power - specifically the 999cc three cylinder unit that now features in so many compact Volkswagen Group models. At the foot of the range, it appears in normally aspirated MPI form with 80PS. A better option though, if you can stretch to it, is the turbocharged TSI version of this unit, available with either 95PS and a choice of 5-speed manual or 7-speed DSG auto transmission; or 110PS and a DSG auto 7-speed gearbox. DSG auto transmission is conditional for those who choose the 207PS 2.0-litre engine fitted to the flagship GTI hot hatch model.
Design and Build
The visual updates made to this sixth generation Polo are a little more noticeable than the changes made to its SEAT Ibiza cousin. If you know your Polos, you'll notice the smoother front end styling, which can now include the brand's piercing 'IQ.Light' intelligent LED matrix headlights, which allow individual settings for different driving conditions and environments. At the rear, there are revised, more Golf-like, tail lamp clusters. The result is a more mature, grown-up level of pavement presence. Inside, a key change is the incorporation of Volkswagen's 'Digital Cockpit', an 8.0-inch digital instrument screen to replace the standard binnacle dials - as standard equipment. This display grows to 10.25-inches in size further up the range from 'Style-spec. Otherwise though, the cabin is much as before, with its horizontally-orientated dashboard and a high placement for the 8.0-inch centre-dash 'Ready 2 Discover' infotainment screen. An upper cross-panel flows across the dash into the doors and can be colour-personalised to suit your taste. In the back, you may, as before, find that this design's relatively high waistline and shallow rear window make it feel a touch enclosed, but rear quarter light windows help and there's class-competitive elbow and legroom. Out back, there's a 355-litre boot, significantly bigger than the trunk offered in a Ford Fiesta. Fold the rear seats and up to 1,125-litres of space can be freed up.
Market and Model
List pricing for this car actually starts from around £21,000. In practice though, it's pretty difficult to imagine many Polo owners paying much less than £23,000 and some will be shelling out a figure somewhere in the £24,000 to £26,000 bracket. The range kicks off with 'Life'-spec models, then you get mid-range 'Match' and 'Style' variants, with plush 'R-Line' derivatives at the top of the mainstream range. You'll need a budget of around £30,000 if you want the top 2.0 TSI 207PS Polo GTI. This enhanced model introduces big-car technology to this compact Volkswagen. For example, the entry-level Polo 'Life' variants feature the brand's 'Travel Assist' system as standard for 95PS 'Life' models and above - making the Polo one of the first models in its segment to offer partly automated driving. LED headlights, Adaptive Cruise Control and an 8.0-inch Digital Cockpit are also among the enhanced Polo's factory-fit equipment, with handy features such as two front and two rear USB sockets, power-folding, adjustable and heated door mirrors, and automatic rain-sensing wipers also included as standard. The Polo's 8.0-inch 'Ready 2 Discover' infotainment system is built on the third-generation Modular Infotainment Matrix (MIB3) and therefore brings App-Connect, which uses either a USB connection or Bluetooth link to activate smartphone mirroring via the central touchscreen. The blend of value, technology and appeal of the 'Life' trim means that it is expected to take around 75% of Polo sales in the UK.
Cost of Ownership
All of the Polo engines on offer are decently frugal. Let's get to the WLTP-rated fuel and CO2 stats. With the base unit, the 80PS version of the 1.0-litre MPI engine, you're supposed to be able to achieve up to 51.5mpg on the combined cycle and up to 124g/km of CO2. In contrast, in a 95PS 1.0 TSI turbo variant, those figures improve to 54.3mpg and 118g/km with a manual gearbox: it's 50.4mpg and 128g/km if you opt for that 1.0-litre TSI engine with a DSG auto gearbox and 110PS. What else? Well, the three year/60,000 mileage warranty isn't anything to write home about in a marketplace where other rivals offer more. But there is a choice of either 'Fixed' or 'Flexible' servicing regimes, depending on the mileage you expect to cover, the 'Fixed' package appropriate for cars covering under 10,000 miles a year. Residual values will continue to be strong: with the previous generation version, you could expect to get between 44 and 51% of your original purchase price back after three years or 36,000 miles. We don't expect that kind of showing to change much this time round.
Summary
So, where does all that leave us? Well, in one of those situations where much has changed - but nothing is really very different. This improved version of the sixth generation Polo is a step on from its predecessor but if you want one, the reasons why will probably be much as they've always been with this car: it feels a quality cut above its rivals. Opting for one of these suggests that you choose to drive a small car, rather than necessarily needing to. It's a small but significant difference. At the end of the day, there's much to be said for an extra touch of quality and class. Seek those as your priorities and you'll find this little supermini more than happy to oblige.
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- Performance
- 60%
- Handling
- 70%
- Comfort
- 90%
- Space
- 70%
- Styling
- 80%
- Build
- 80%
- Value
- 70%
- Equipment
- 70%
- Economy
- 70%
- Depreciation
- 90%
- Insurance
- 70%
* Depending on the age of the vehicle, MPG and CO2 may be quoted using either NEDC or WLTP testing standards. Find out more
Figures are provided for comparison purposes. Fuel consumption under real world driving conditions and the CO2 produced will depend upon a number of factors, including any accessories fitted after registration, variations in driving styles, weather conditions and vehicle load.
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48 monthly payments of | £309 |
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Deposit | £309 |
Volkswagen deposit | £250 |
Total amount payable | £23,986.04 |
Fixed interest rate | 10.87% |
Representative APR | 10.9% |
Cash price | £18,298 |
Credit amount | £17,739 |
Contract mileage | 32,000 |
Excess mileage charge | 4.8p per mile |
Completion fee | £1 |
Optional final payment | £8594.04 |
Term (months) | 49 |
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- Volkswagen Polo - 1.0 TSI Life 5dr DSG
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- 7422 miles, Linwood Volkswagen