I believe that VW named many of its cars after winds and other meteorological phenomena. 'Golf 'refers to the Gulf Stream, 'Scirroco' to a desert wind. 'Jetta ' to the jet-stream. 'Passat' to a trade wind and Polo refers to the polar winds . . I enjoy your videos very much.
You're probably right. I found conflicting sources for that and just picked one, but winds make more sense, especially with the Scirocco being launched first.
@@77funtomas: In one book I read, the explanation was that it was named the Polo as a pun on the English meaning of Golf, and a lot of German VW executives spoke English, and as Big Car himself noted, the trunked Polo was called the Derby.
I am europeab and i also learned alot. Funfact the american made camero handles poorly on european roads because he have alot of sharp turns. Theres a company that made a limited edition camaro made for the EU. Sadly its no longet available
Errata: The Polo and Golf were named after winds, not sports. Claus Luthe was the main designer of the Audi 50. Gandini also did work on finalising the exterior design. Thanks to everyone for your corrections!
Big Car you talked about your family having a Polo in 1977 and I lived with an English family in Farnborough in 1971 your family and my friends had German cars 16 and 22 years after the war with Germany. That gives me hope for the human race to move on, stupid mistakes by our leaders should not make nations population enemies. I hope present mistakes by our leaders will be rectified by our nations populations fairly quick.
Ah yes our 1984 Polo was one of the most reliable cars we ever owned. Bought with 34,000 miles on the clock, one owner , full service history and immaculate! We did over YES OVER 200,000 miles with it, replacing the timing belt, the wheel bearings and usual items such as oil filter etc etc.. 👀I replaced the FULL set of wheel bearing for under £50 !! 😶 Everything on it was easy to replace (though the alternator was a new version specific to that year model..) In the end I sold it on for a £100 with a hole in the passenger side floor.. ! The mini estate car styling could carry numerous bulky items with ease (our visits to auctions proved that !!) 👍It was an all round basic car but totally reliable AND economical. A classic.
Like your intro about the Polo. My Mum bought one in Oct 1977 (s reg) to replace her Mini Clubman Estate, which at 3 years old was absolutely riddled with rust. The back seat support, being made of fibreboard had broken too. In contrast, the 900cc green Polo seemed to be out of another age. Peppy, revvy and a great little car. Maybe it wasn’t perfect but it seemed like it to me at 19.
My grandparents owned one of these. We inherited it. Mum didn't keep it in oil and it died. She bought another. It ran for years. When I left home one of my flatmates had one. Fast forward 20+ years. My new partner has a flatmate who is really attached to an old mk1 POLO. These things haunt me. :-) Luv and Peace.
Maybe the Polo is not the most appealing supermini, but once you sit in Polo it goes under your skin like no other supermini. We had Mk5 1.2 TSI DSG and it fit me like my pair of old jeans. It seems the car was predicting my intentions and everything was happening instantaneously. This was the most effortless car in any aspect of buying, driving, and owning we've ever had. Who knows - one day I may surprise myself by having another Polo :)
In Swedish, a lavatory outside is call a "dass", pronounced exactly like the German "das" certainly spins the VW advertisment "das auto" to a more meaningful understanding on how the quality of a previous simple and reliable car has come to be a true crapper.
Still driving my polo fox 86c (Volkswagen Derby twist), runs like a charm. Got him like 4 years. Its nearly 30 years old :), i hope i can hold this car. Very reliable!
I survived a100 kmph car crash in a VW Polo fox , early eighties (1983?) model. The emergency personal couldn't believe we walked out of that car without a scratch . The front of the car was gone yet us inside were unharmed. Bless the Polo !
2:54 Fuel gauge is in the bottom of the "combi instrument". Volkswagen group didn't want such a small car to be a Audi as they had plans for making it their luxury brand. So they decided to call it VW instead. That would round off their products: Polo (the Audi 50), Golf, Scirocco, Passat (and later also Jetta).
Thanks for giving such a comprehensive history of what has become a favourite car of mine! My wife has just got a brand new polo and I was surprised to learn it has a 1ltr 3 cylinder engine...but...Turbocharged! this totally gives this car brisk performance which just is amazing that such a small engine can chuck out so much power. handling is good and it has a complete touch screen entertainment system, even has a CD player tucked away in the Glove compartment
The one thing I know for sure is the Polo name never came to the US! Too small for us. A performance model could bring it back here if it could out perform our current Golf GTI.
Hired a Derby when I was in Germany in the late 70s, a very minimal car but easy to drive, held the road well at speed which was amazing for a small car and I mean high speed because there was norestriction on the autobahn.
Easy to drive is true. I only once drove a Derby and that was the day of the examination for my driving license in Germany. That connects me to the Derby
FYI, the Audi A2 was the first mass-produced car featuring an aluminum space frame. Body-wise, it had absolutely nothing in common with the Polo platform. It did share the engines and some parts of the drive train though.
I swear Google can hear my conversations. I've been watching the channel for a while now, but I think RUclips recommended this specific video because I'm working on a car in the game Automation that is basically a Polo with a VR6 engine swap and a Fast and Furious bodykit and livery.
I think you didn't search about the production that VW started in India as well. And it became one of the best selling cars in South India. And why India isn't getting the new Polo?
Always been a VAG guy. Of the 32 cars I've owned, 10 of them have been old-school VW or Audi. Two Porsches if you want to throw them in. 70s-90s German engineering could not be beat.
We have a 2013 VW Polo and it's really a cute car that i like a lot ! it's the car that makes you think you don't necessary need a Golf that is too big for some people while the Polo being slightly smaller offers a decent space, nice boot size and a very similar interior quality well finished, definitely better for a smaller price too
Nice video! I have had sevral. I have had a mk1 that we built an golf mk2 full subframe and gti engine in (budget rallycross) have also had a mk1 gt but it was way to rotted so i got a 2007 gti cup edition 1.8t 180hp tuned to 205hp was so mutch fun, regret selling that. Now i have gotten my hands on a mk1 0.9L 39hp that i am going to have as a sunday car!
The Polo is my favourite supermini too as my first ever car was a black 1997 MK3 Polo. It's funny that the Polo was meant as a reference to sport since Golf was originally a reference to the Gulf stream as there were other cars which were named after wind - Bora, Scirroco and Passat all were too.
This video make me think of Italdesign, since Italdesign designed the original VW Golf. Italdesign was also responsible for the Maserati Bora, BMW M1, Alfa Romeo Alfasud, Audi 80, Delorean DMC-12, and Subaru SVX. I knew about the Delorean, but I didn’t know about the others until I got the book A-Z European Coachbuilders.
I need to double check, but I think a version of the Polo platform was sold in the USA in the late 80s as the VW Fox (as opposed to the Audi 80/90 that was sold as the Fox in the 70s). It was manufactured in Brazil. The US got the version with a boot and a wagon (not the hatchback/ coupe). Thanks for this video, which answered my question as to why VW sold both the Golf and Polo, which to me competed in the same market segment.
The Fox sold in North America was the Brazilian designed and developed VW Voyage, a VW Gol with a boot. This was on the BX platform, meaning longitudinal engine and transmission layout like the Audi B1 and B2, while the rear was similar to an A2 Golf torsion beam but narrower. The Polo and Audi 50 were on the A0 platform, meaning transverse engine and transmission configuration. So really, the VW Fox and Polo are largely unrelated from a platform standpoint and share little if at all, other than their position in the range of their respective markets.
Bought in 1997 a Polo Classic 1992 named VolksWagen Fox in Canada. It's 1.8L engin was so frugal, I could do more than 700Km on a gas tank! Thought confort, equipments were very minimum.
At the time (on this side of the Pond) I could get a rabbit, the US production closed down. Then I seem to recall we were offered the "Fox" was that a Polo. Have always been a diesel fan and drool when I visit friends on the Isle of Jersey. Thank you. Narragansett Bay
well, mk3 also had 1.6 engine with 125 hp which could do about 9 seconds to 100 km/h, it was better than mentioned version which could do more than 10 seconds....
Had a Polo Coffin Estate once!Could carry loads but the lack of brakes were scary,VW didnt fit brake servos to the early ones in RHD!Imagine trying that nowadays!
There was a lot of mk1 polos about still in the 80s but i never see any other colour but yellow and red strangely My mate had a yellow one and he gave it to his mom when he got a newer car .
The latest models certainly are big. I mistook one for a Golf and subsequently sought out a Golf for reference. They now seem huge compared to the original model.
Não tem nada a ver o Gol com a linha Polo, é outra construção, arquitetura.
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I was always wondering what's the deal with the Polo, thanks. :) Polo Mk5 was my auto-school car for driving lessons, in beautiful orange. Very comfortable and snappy, and quite not so small, as you say.
I'll second that! A great, tremendously overlooked car. I did 324,000 miles on my 1987 323 hatchback and it still drove fine when I got rid of it. I've had a first gen 3 and now drive a 3rd gen 3. Mazdas never let me down.
3:35 it's funny because with the closed captioning on it actually says that when he says they were named after sporting games it literally says "he doesn't know what he's talking about they actually were named after winds"! This is very funny as we are used to automated closed captioning in this almost seemed like an AI attempt to correct him, although I'm very sure that he wrote his own captions and corrected himself after the fact in a very humourous manner that a lot of people probably didn't see!
Love it! Thank you! How about one about the Fiat Uno? That was MY first car. That was our second Fiat, after that we had about 10 more I think. Now I want a electric car. Norway is nuts about them. Why? No taxes and free toll roads, free parking etc. I am looking at the new Fiat 500e or there brand new concept car! Look it up! Stay safe, and be safe!
My very first car was a 1981 polo MK1 and i can't emphasize enough how much fan to drive it was , even if it was when I bought it 3 years older than me it still felt like a " cart " ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mini-Golf is also what Germans call crazy golf, whoever suggested that was fully aware of the pun. In a test by the leading German car magazine the Polo Mk2 pulled more lateral g than a Porsche 911.
Mum had the mark 2 (3 examples) and was basic and slow (one didn't even have a clock) but reliable especially compared to our neighbours cars (fiat Uno and Austin metro) which often took 12 attempts to fire up. The polo nearly always went on the first turn of the key. I then had the mark 3 and it was solid, again reliable and quite nice to drive with power steering especially compared to the Corsa I learnt to drive in. With 55hp from the 1.3 it was slow. Quicker than the 1 litre mark 2 by a huge margin but still not something you want to overtake or join a busy motorway slip road in! I hired a mark 5 abroad and really liked it. Solid, refined, well built. In many ways it was nicer than the Alfa MiTo I had at the time. Mark 7 looks a little bland. Ibiza smarter and drives really nice too. But polo is better quality inside.
Thanks, love the old adverts, no CGI in the those days, all done for real. Cannot imagine a Geoff Capes style advert these days. Yes the Polo has a very interesting history, I did not know it originated in NSU, but I remember the Prinz, (Spelling). Thanks again for your research. OH, I forgot, a 3 cylinder diesel? What where they thinking.
Yeah, that's really interesting. I didn't know that the Polo originated at NSU as well. I know that the larger K70 was originally from NSU and was meant to be produced by them, but when VW purchased them it eventually became a VW and was also produced at a VW plant. Ironic how the small NSU already knew the advances of front-engine-fwd cars when VW preferred rear-engine layouts for way too long. Even the Beetle successor that in the end became the Golf was originally planned to be rear-engine. Luckily under new ownership VW finally began producing front-engine cars in the early 70s, otherwise they certainly wouldn't have survived throughout the 70s.
Very interesting. We didn't get the Polo here in the US, only the Golf. Stylistically, the Polo was a much better-looking car. The diesel Golf (Rabbit) sold well here....with it's 48 hp under the hood, 0-60 was quite an eventual occurrence
So nice to hear a cheerful story of a car that went from strength to strength and continues to do so today. That can't be said about many cars that began life in the 1970s. Thank you once again for another thoroughly enjoyable, first-rate quality video.
I believe that VW named many of its cars after winds and other meteorological phenomena. 'Golf 'refers to the Gulf Stream, 'Scirroco' to a desert wind. 'Jetta ' to the jet-stream. 'Passat' to a trade wind and Polo refers to the polar winds .
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I enjoy your videos very much.
You're probably right. I found conflicting sources for that and just picked one, but winds make more sense, especially with the Scirocco being launched first.
Next VW model they should name FART it is a type of the wind too...
@@77funtomas: In one book I read, the explanation was that it was named the Polo as a pun on the English meaning of Golf, and a lot of German VW executives spoke English, and as Big Car himself noted, the trunked Polo was called the Derby.
@@77funtomas The FART would definitely be a van. no question.
Yes i think this is correct because VW abandoned it's prototype dubbed Ratten Furz.
I appreciate learning alot about the European market on their cars and vehicles. You do a wonderful job explaining.
I am europeab and i also learned alot. Funfact the american made camero handles poorly on european roads because he have alot of sharp turns. Theres a company that made a limited edition camaro made for the EU. Sadly its no longet available
He's British
@@makeIovenotwar ok
Errata: The Polo and Golf were named after winds, not sports.
Claus Luthe was the main designer of the Audi 50. Gandini also did work on finalising the exterior design.
Thanks to everyone for your corrections!
Big Car you talked about your family having a Polo in 1977 and I lived with an English family in Farnborough in 1971 your family and my friends had German cars 16 and 22 years after the war with Germany. That gives me hope for the human race to move on, stupid mistakes by our leaders should not make nations population enemies. I hope present mistakes by our leaders will be rectified by our nations populations fairly quick.
The Golf was named after the horse of VW board member Zimmermann, it appears. Polo and Derby derived from there.
@@AJ-BrunoThe origin of the name is variously attributed to the game of golf, the Gulf Stream current (German "Golfstrom") or the name of a horse.
@@AJ-BrunoThe origin of the name is variously attributed to the game of golf, the Gulf Stream current (German "Golfstrom") or the name of a horse.
Which of course explains the golf ball styled gear knob on the GTi.
Ah yes our 1984 Polo was one of the most reliable cars we ever owned. Bought with 34,000 miles on the clock, one owner , full service history and immaculate! We did over YES OVER 200,000 miles with it, replacing the timing belt, the wheel bearings and usual items such as oil filter etc etc.. 👀I replaced the FULL set of wheel bearing for under £50 !! 😶 Everything on it was easy to replace (though the alternator was a new version specific to that year model..) In the end I sold it on for a £100 with a hole in the passenger side floor.. ! The mini estate car styling could carry numerous bulky items with ease (our visits to auctions proved that !!) 👍It was an all round basic car but totally reliable AND economical. A classic.
4:07 gotta love how that impact ruined the suspension just enough to leave it stancing in an angle.
Kyntteri Hehe good catch
As well, you can just see something flying around the cabin....I think from the back seating area.
Like your intro about the Polo. My Mum bought one in Oct 1977 (s reg) to replace her Mini Clubman Estate, which at 3 years old was absolutely riddled with rust. The back seat support, being made of fibreboard had broken too. In contrast, the 900cc green Polo seemed to be out of another age. Peppy, revvy and a great little car. Maybe it wasn’t perfect but it seemed like it to me at 19.
We had water pooling in the floor of the Polo. Germany hadn't yet got bulletproof reliability!
My grandparents owned one of these. We inherited it. Mum didn't keep it in oil and it died.
She bought another. It ran for years.
When I left home one of my flatmates had one.
Fast forward 20+ years.
My new partner has a flatmate who is really attached to an old mk1 POLO.
These things haunt me.
:-)
Luv and Peace.
You need to go chat to Bert Gummer 😁
Maybe the Polo is not the most appealing supermini, but once you sit in Polo it goes under your skin like no other supermini. We had Mk5 1.2 TSI DSG and it fit me like my pair of old jeans.
It seems the car was predicting my intentions and everything was happening instantaneously. This was the most effortless car in any aspect of buying, driving, and owning we've ever had.
Who knows - one day I may surprise myself by having another Polo :)
In Swedish, a lavatory outside is call a "dass", pronounced exactly like the German "das" certainly spins the VW advertisment "das auto" to a more meaningful understanding on how the quality of a previous simple and reliable car has come to be a true crapper.
Still driving my polo fox 86c (Volkswagen Derby twist), runs like a charm. Got him like 4 years. Its nearly 30 years old :), i hope i can hold this car. Very reliable!
General rule with old-ish VW (70's- 90's): hard corners=good car, rounded edges=junk
Hahahhaha funny became it's true
I survived a100 kmph car crash in a VW Polo fox , early eighties (1983?) model. The emergency personal couldn't believe we walked out of that car without a scratch .
The front of the car was gone yet us inside were unharmed.
Bless the Polo !
2:54 Fuel gauge is in the bottom of the "combi instrument". Volkswagen group didn't want such a small car to be a Audi as they had plans for making it their luxury brand. So they decided to call it VW instead. That would round off their products: Polo (the Audi 50), Golf, Scirocco, Passat (and later also Jetta).
Thanks for giving such a comprehensive history of what has become a favourite car of mine! My wife has just got a brand new polo and I was surprised to learn it has a 1ltr 3 cylinder engine...but...Turbocharged! this totally gives this car brisk performance which just is amazing that such a small engine can chuck out so much power. handling is good and it has a complete touch screen entertainment system, even has a CD player tucked away in the Glove compartment
The one thing I know for sure is the Polo name never came to the US! Too small for us. A performance model could bring it back here if it could out perform our current Golf GTI.
Hired a Derby when I was in Germany in the late 70s, a very minimal car but easy to drive, held the road well at speed which was amazing for a small car and I mean high speed because there was norestriction on the autobahn.
Easy to drive is true. I only once drove a Derby and that was the day of the examination for my driving license in Germany. That connects me to the Derby
I loved my Polo. I will always remember them fondly.
7 years in now and 185K on the clock and 20 years old, still does the figures and burns no oil, think I should keep her!!
now do the even smaller Lupo!
Or the small but ugly FOX
Don't you mean the VW 'Up!' (v small electric city car)
Lupo was interesting - while it was small, it still shared many parts with 6n Polo, including GTI engine.
You also have the grandfather of the Passat, also from NSU, the K-70. We had one from 1977-82.
This channel feels familiar :)
I think I’m going to love it.
FYI, the Audi A2 was the first mass-produced car featuring an aluminum space frame. Body-wise, it had absolutely nothing in common with the Polo platform. It did share the engines and some parts of the drive train though.
I would quite like to see a video on the Audi A2. It's a quite a unique little car.
I swear Google can hear my conversations. I've been watching the channel for a while now, but I think RUclips recommended this specific video because I'm working on a car in the game Automation that is basically a Polo with a VR6 engine swap and a Fast and Furious bodykit and livery.
9:23 I think that is the mk4 Polo bluemotion, rather than the mk4 facelift, which looks more similar to the mk4 pre-facelift
Fascinating story of NSU and Audi/VW in the early days 😎👍🏼
6:28 I have this in my garage. Reconditioning soon!
I think you didn't search about the production that VW started in India as well. And it became one of the best selling cars in South India. And why India isn't getting the new Polo?
because india is poor
You mention the mark VI gaining four doors in 2017, the Typ 6N/6KV had five doors in 1994?
6KV wasn't really Polo, it was rebadged 6k Cordoba
Suggest Fiat Uno, Alfa 156
Make a video about the unique Brazilian Volkswagens, like the Gol, the Brasilia, the Variant II and the SP2.
I had several early ones for years. It turned into my painters van eventually, plenty of room with the back seat down. Reliable and fun to drive.
Another suggestion: Ford fiesta story
@Dust My Broom ok
Do they even sale them in Europe anymore? I know they dont for the NA market.
Love your videos - always well researched and well narrated.
The Polo is the most iconic car I know. Not to mention our current family car being an old mk4.
Mk2 Polo one of the most solid reliable cars VW built. I love 70`s and 80`s Vw`s but not so much these days.
@Venturi Atlantique I agree
I still have a polo C 1988 2 door hatch back wouldnt part with her
@@thomashughes9916 YUp good cars!
My 1981 Vw is literally more reliable than brand new Vw’s.
That is so sad.
Modern cars are too complicated for their own good.
What a fantastic history lesson, I loved it.
But you forget that the Audi 80 MK 1 is also the father of the VW Passat ho is based on him
What does your information has to do with the model Polo, which is this episode made about?🤔
The 2014 version looks the best among all revisions since the 2000s started.
Interesting how the Audi went from basically inventing the polo to discontinueing the 50 to releasing the A1.
this in a 30+ years period?
the Polo became too fat, too heavy and too expensive. -.-
They don't even build a two-door version anymore
I’ve seen a Mk5 a couple times in Oklahoma, it had Mexican tags. Pretty cool car!
Always been a VAG guy. Of the 32 cars I've owned, 10 of them have been old-school VW or Audi. Two Porsches if you want to throw them in. 70s-90s German engineering could not be beat.
Japan begs to differ
We have a 2013 VW Polo and it's really a cute car that i like a lot ! it's the car that makes you think you don't necessary need a Golf that is too big for some people while the Polo being slightly smaller offers a decent space, nice boot size and a very similar interior quality well finished, definitely better for a smaller price too
Nice video! I have had sevral. I have had a mk1 that we built an golf mk2 full subframe and gti engine in (budget rallycross) have also had a mk1 gt but it was way to rotted so i got a 2007 gti cup edition 1.8t 180hp tuned to 205hp was so mutch fun, regret selling that. Now i have gotten my hands on a mk1 0.9L 39hp that i am going to have as a sunday car!
My dad had g40. Almost killed myself in it, good times though
The Polo is my favourite supermini too as my first ever car was a black 1997 MK3 Polo.
It's funny that the Polo was meant as a reference to sport since Golf was originally a reference to the Gulf stream as there were other cars which were named after wind - Bora, Scirroco and Passat all were too.
This video make me think of Italdesign, since Italdesign designed the original VW Golf. Italdesign was also responsible for the Maserati Bora, BMW M1, Alfa Romeo Alfasud, Audi 80, Delorean DMC-12, and Subaru SVX. I knew about the Delorean, but I didn’t know about the others until I got the book A-Z European Coachbuilders.
Wow, such a well made video. Love it
I need to double check, but I think a version of the Polo platform was sold in the USA in the late 80s as the VW Fox (as opposed to the Audi 80/90 that was sold as the Fox in the 70s). It was manufactured in Brazil. The US got the version with a boot and a wagon (not the hatchback/ coupe). Thanks for this video, which answered my question as to why VW sold both the Golf and Polo, which to me competed in the same market segment.
Correct - it was a VW Gol: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Fox#North_America_(1987%E2%80%931993)
The Fox sold in North America was the Brazilian designed and developed VW Voyage, a VW Gol with a boot. This was on the BX platform, meaning longitudinal engine and transmission layout like the Audi B1 and B2, while the rear was similar to an A2 Golf torsion beam but narrower. The Polo and Audi 50 were on the A0 platform, meaning transverse engine and transmission configuration. So really, the VW Fox and Polo are largely unrelated from a platform standpoint and share little if at all, other than their position in the range of their respective markets.
My elder sister has a 2010 Polo and also a 95 Polo which she inherited from out late father.
simple and strong car. Sticked to the road.
Bought in 1997 a Polo Classic 1992 named VolksWagen Fox in Canada. It's 1.8L engin was so frugal, I could do more than 700Km on a gas tank! Thought confort, equipments were very minimum.
At the time (on this side of the Pond) I could get a rabbit, the US production closed down. Then I seem to recall we were offered the "Fox" was that a Polo. Have always been a diesel fan and drool when I visit friends on the Isle of Jersey. Thank you. Narragansett Bay
No, the VW Fox sold in the USA was a Brazilian made car, it was the sedan version of the VW Gol. It was sold in Brazil as VW Voyage.
Just subscribed...thank you for brilliant video histories of some much loved cars!
The look of these changed dramatically over the years.
Have you got a series 1 Ford Fiesta review, or Vauxhall Astra series 1 (Opel Kadett)?
well, mk3 also had 1.6 engine with 125 hp which could do about 9 seconds to 100 km/h, it was better than mentioned version which could do more than 10 seconds....
Had a Polo Coffin Estate once!Could carry loads but the lack of brakes were scary,VW didnt fit brake servos to the early ones in RHD!Imagine trying that nowadays!
I remember most of the adverts you are showing. Ahh, the past, how wonderful
the supercharged one was called a g40, not gt 40, i had 4 of them, one of my favorite cars from my youth and the only car i ever bought new.
I Miss the Polo mk3 Harlekin 🥺
Love your work you get to the facts and don't go all fan-boy
I have a 2008 polo 1.9 l ! Is my first car and i love it ! Is fast safe tuned up by my adopted Father and i love it!
Great content. Enjoyably interesting 😎
Geoff Capes flipping the Polo:) That brings back some memories.
Is he a famous futbol player, and what club?
@@markusantonio4866 lol you kidding right ? If not he was a British strong man back in the day :)
I had completely forgotten about that advert.
Nice VW Polo car history 🙂🙏 Thank you for making it 👍 🚗
My mother had an NSU in 72, father used to call it "no sodding use" he bought her a Beetle later that year..
There was a lot of mk1 polos about still in the 80s but i never see any other colour but yellow and red strangely
My mate had a yellow one and he gave it to his mom when he got a newer car .
You are very interesting. The details are deep man
The latest models certainly are big. I mistook one for a Golf and subsequently sought out a Golf for reference. They now seem huge compared to the original model.
Mini Clubfoot bigger than my dad's 2004 Mercedes C estate with the 3.2 litre diesel - that thing is a ballistic missile
Wait. Seat is pronounced see-at? I had no idea.
Great video by the way. I will def check out your other content.
@bwgti It should furthermore be written in Capitals, SEAT, since it's an acronym for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo 😄
I think you should have mentioned the RO 80 instead of the spider.
You got a great series of informative Videos, really like it. Regards from germany.
I had a 2001 polo gti and loved it, i hope to buy a brand new one someday!
I actually own a Polo Saloon Classic Formel E. Its a 1 of 7 in the uk.
Não tem nada a ver o Gol com a linha Polo, é outra construção, arquitetura.
I was always wondering what's the deal with the Polo, thanks. :)
Polo Mk5 was my auto-school car for driving lessons, in beautiful orange. Very comfortable and snappy, and quite not so small, as you say.
Great channel i love it keep it coming.... Make one on the mazda 323 / 3....
I'll second that! A great, tremendously overlooked car. I did 324,000 miles on my 1987 323 hatchback and it still drove fine when I got rid of it. I've had a first gen 3 and now drive a 3rd gen 3. Mazdas never let me down.
Very well built is the VW Polo...💪
I have a MK1 polo with a g40 engine in it. Good fun, quite scary!
It would be awesome if you could make an episode about the Audi A2. Cheers!
3:35 it's funny because with the closed captioning on it actually says that when he says they were named after sporting games it literally says "he doesn't know what he's talking about they actually were named after winds"!
This is very funny as we are used to automated closed captioning in this almost seemed like an AI attempt to correct him, although I'm very sure that he wrote his own captions and corrected himself after the fact in a very humourous manner that a lot of people probably didn't see!
Thanks for noticing!
What is the difference between the Polo and the Gol? Or are they one and the same?
No mention of the hideous Polo mk3 saloon and odd looking polo estate?
Love it! Thank you! How about one about the Fiat Uno? That was MY first car. That was our second Fiat, after that we had about 10 more I think. Now I want a electric car. Norway is nuts about them. Why? No taxes and free toll roads, free parking etc. I am looking at the new Fiat 500e or there brand new concept car! Look it up! Stay safe, and be safe!
I'm sure I'll get to the Uno at some point.
My very first car was a 1981 polo MK1 and i can't emphasize enough how much fan to drive it was , even if it was when I bought it 3 years older than me it still felt like a " cart " ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mini-Golf is also what Germans call crazy golf, whoever suggested that was fully aware of the pun.
In a test by the leading German car magazine the Polo Mk2 pulled more lateral g than a Porsche 911.
price of the original polo sounds strange. in 1980 here in italy, with import taxes, it was 10-15% more than a fiat 127. cars were less expensive.
Mum had the mark 2 (3 examples) and was basic and slow (one didn't even have a clock) but reliable especially compared to our neighbours cars (fiat Uno and Austin metro) which often took 12 attempts to fire up. The polo nearly always went on the first turn of the key. I then had the mark 3 and it was solid, again reliable and quite nice to drive with power steering especially compared to the Corsa I learnt to drive in. With 55hp from the 1.3 it was slow. Quicker than the 1 litre mark 2 by a huge margin but still not something you want to overtake or join a busy motorway slip road in! I hired a mark 5 abroad and really liked it. Solid, refined, well built. In many ways it was nicer than the Alfa MiTo I had at the time. Mark 7 looks a little bland. Ibiza smarter and drives really nice too. But polo is better quality inside.
Thanks, love the old adverts, no CGI in the those days, all done for real.
Cannot imagine a Geoff Capes style advert these days.
Yes the Polo has a very interesting history, I did not know it originated in NSU, but I remember the Prinz, (Spelling).
Thanks again for your research. OH, I forgot, a 3 cylinder diesel? What where they thinking.
Yeah, that's really interesting. I didn't know that the Polo originated at NSU as well. I know that the larger K70 was originally from NSU and was meant to be produced by them, but when VW purchased them it eventually became a VW and was also produced at a VW plant. Ironic how the small NSU already knew the advances of front-engine-fwd cars when VW preferred rear-engine layouts for way too long. Even the Beetle successor that in the end became the Golf was originally planned to be rear-engine. Luckily under new ownership VW finally began producing front-engine cars in the early 70s, otherwise they certainly wouldn't have survived throughout the 70s.
Please could you do a video on the Beetle?
Very interesting. We didn't get the Polo here in the US, only the Golf. Stylistically, the Polo was a much better-looking car. The diesel Golf (Rabbit) sold well here....with it's 48 hp under the hood, 0-60 was quite an eventual occurrence
& I believe it is the best selling vehicle in South Africa
Just picked up a Mk2f CL Saloon with a 1.3 engine and its unreal how comfortable it is on a country road
Yay for old Polos 🎉 The new ones are huge though 😮
I own a MK5 Polo. A 2017 model comfortline. Beautiful car to drive and hasn’t let me down. Proud to own it
I drive an 86c and he's 30yrs now, I love him and I will care fo my little bud ❤️
Ida kay l think l have the same as you mine is a E reg polo c 2 door hatchback 30 yrs old
@@thomashughes9916 mine is a fancy, please Google it ✌️ in tornado red and everything original. I hope my little love will last a long time!
Ida kay l have the same model only I call it a square back it’s in dark blue
I had a MK1 and a MK2 and currently own (bought from new in 2000) a 6n2 built in Spain and she just keeps going and going
Rented a Polo in Mendoza Argentina, drove over the Andes to Santiago Chile (and back again) Great car handled the mountain road and altitude fine.
I have owned many VW's back in the day. I went from air-cooled VW's in the 70's to a later cooled Rabbit in the the 80's
I had a mk3, great little car but the engine gave me problems - blue smoke. I upgraded to a 2001 beetle.
So nice to hear a cheerful story of a car that went from strength to strength and continues to do so today. That can't be said about many cars that began life in the 1970s. Thank you once again for another thoroughly enjoyable, first-rate quality video.