2010 Polo GTI: video roundup
As the new Polo GTI seems to be flavour of the month around these parts (and as it’s Friday), we’ve found a trio of videos featuring the new small car performance wonder. Our favourite has to be the – German language – onTrack circuit film around the 2.7km LUK test track in Baden Baden, Germany. The first time we’ve seen the new baby GTI driven around and through chicanes with anger, the tester describes it as classless and fun, and although it might be slower than a Mini Cooper Works (but faster than a Honda Civic Type R), he asks if lap times matter that much if you’re enjoying the drive? The second video is from Japan, and is largely useful for visual shots, with some on-road action thrown in. The third clip is a lap of the Nordschleife at full pelt, viewed from the passenger seat of the new 178bhp 1.4 TSI-powered GTI. Volkswagen’s Flash Red German-registered press Polo ‘WOB-NP 123’ must be one of the hardest-working cars in the business…