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Polo GT & Polo Dune available in September?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 1:29 am
by Petrified
Speaking to someone at Inters who works for VW. The GT and Polo (Fun/Trek) are available in September. The Polo fun will be called Polo Dune over here?

The GT will be the 6Speed PD130 engine only, as a 'Special' model apparently.

Sorry if it's all old news.

James.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:29 am
by rooboy
ooh the polo fun: will it be WILD and WACKY in a way that only the Germans know how. Probably not, also I would be suprised if it will be called the fun, as a blaspemous car company has regestered and used that name for their own evil deeds.

It was based on the Skoda felicia pickup (sorry VW caddy pickup, don't want anybody to think VW rebadge skodas and sell them at a premium)and the rear bulkhead slid out to reveal 2 more seats. It had a 1.6l engine with ABS and the usual gumpf and was painted in a rather nice shade of yellow and had a yellow leather/grey cloth interior.

Re: Polo GT & Polo Dune available in September?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:00 am
by alex
Petrified wrote:Speaking to someone at Inters who works for VW. The GT and Polo (Fun/Trek) are available in September. The Polo fun will be called Polo Dune over here?

The GT will be the 6Speed PD130 engine only, as a 'Special' model apparently.

Sorry if it's all old news.

James.
6spd PD130 GT how much is that going to cost???? (A bit more than 12K me thinks)

As Jeff says Fun has already been taken anyone know the story about were the vRS badge came from?

Re: Polo GT & Polo Dune available in September?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:05 am
by rooboy
6spd PD130 GT how much is that going to cost???? (A bit more than 12K me thinks)

As Jeff says Fun has already been taken anyone know the story about were the vRS badge came from?[/quote]

the pd130 GT can be had for a very resonable ( :lol: ) £14650 in 5 door form.

the vRS badge is used by the high and mighty skoda motorsport and although I think the V is just the accent used above the S in the skoda badge, the official line is that it stands for victory.
(well with a sporting pedegree that only ferrari can match who am I to argue)

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:09 am
by alex
I think the party line is that Ford threaten to sue for use of RS in the badge go to court S***a win hence the v which as you say is for victory.

14650 Jesus you can tick all the options boxes for that on a Furbie f*****g ell

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:15 am
by rooboy
alex wrote:I think the party line is that Ford threaten to sue for use of RS in the badge go to court S***a win hence the v which as you say is for victory.

14650 Jesus you can tick all the options boxes for that on a Furbie f*****g ell
The badge has not changed, it is just that as ford were crying over skoda using the rs badge (only in the uk for some reason), skoda simply used the v from the existing model badge to give it the new name (the early Octavias were marketed as RS in this country and both models are still in the rest of europe).

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:18 am
by alex
rooboy wrote:
alex wrote:I think the party line is that Ford threaten to sue for use of RS in the badge go to court S***a win hence the v which as you say is for victory.

14650 Jesus you can tick all the options boxes for that on a Furbie f*****g ell
The badge has not changed, it is just that as ford were crying over skoda using the rs badge (only in the uk for some reason), skoda simply used the v from the existing model badge to give it the new name (the early Octavias were marketed as RS in this country and both models are still in the rest of europe).
Did i say it had :roll:
Were you working last night Jeff? :D

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:21 am
by rooboy
Just helping to tech the children Alex.

no, I'm 'working' the evening shift. so I start at 3 and finish at 11, so I wont be very busy this week :wink:

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:29 am
by alex
Cool lot of time for our 'special time' :)

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:33 am
by rooboy
your on there handsome.

I always thoght VW should have made a polo special edition with white tyres and called it the mint, or am i just being sad.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:37 am
by alex
And stamp POLO on the roof?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:47 am
by rooboy
Good thinking bat(ty)man. They could also have given away a years supply of ring shaped minty sweets as part of the deal. Also the exhaust could be painted in the wrapper of said sweets.

It can't look any worse than that ugly mother of a car with panels a different colour (it was the harlequin I think)

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:50 am
by alex
The polo harlequin now that is a spanking car f**k up in the paint plant? Call it a special edition :lol:

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:52 am
by rooboy
I called it a Dagenham cut and shut it looked that bad.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:58 am
by alex
Dagenham Cut 'n' Shuts sound like ####### new garage lol