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The VW Polo gets rolling!

Varad More             28 Apr 2009

VW Polo

Volkswagen India invited a select few from the media to witness the pre-series production of the new Polo at their newly built facility in Chakan near Pune. ZigWheels brings you the report...

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Spread across 575 acres, the Volkswagen Chakan plant was inaugurated on 31st March, 2009. The state-of-the-art facility was constructed in a span of seventeen months with the total financial commitment of Rs 3,800 crore by Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd. It currently hosts 720 workers under its roof. With 35% automated manufacturing, it is still not entirely comparable to the Volkswagen plants in Germany which are 98% automated but the Indian facility is technologically well-armed to produce 1,10,000 cars annually.

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The plant began with its pre-series production of the new Polo yesterday, which will be ready for launch in India by 2010. The first finished body of the Polo was rolled to the paint shop by the hands of Dr. Philipp Rosler, Minister of Economics, Labour and Transportation of the German Federal State of Lower Saxony. This was a pre-run to the official production of the new Polo scheduled to commence at the Chakan plant by end of 2009. The new Polo will be a premium hatchback offering from Volkswagen and it will be specifically tailored for the Indian market. The car will be launched with three engine options namely - two petrol variants and one diesel variant. All the Polo models sold in India will come equipped with air-condition unlike the European market where the base versions of the Polo do not feature air-conditioning.

The ground clearance will also be increased on the models sold in India and the final model of the Polo to be sold in India will be unveiled at the Auto Expo in New Delhi, next year. The car will be available in silver, white, red and blue colours and the company officials are also contemplating on introducing an orange paint scheme for India to go with the sporty image of the Polo. Quality control is one of the key areas that the company is focusing on and all the quality checks will be strictly undertaken at the manufacturing level before the Polo hits series production at the plant. The idea behind this approach is to make sure that the problems are not high-lighted at the cost of the end-user.

 
 

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User's Comments
  • PalanappanM (04 January 2010 23:54)
    Waiting for poLo ! | Reply
  • Sharad Sakorkar (26 December 2009 16:30)
    Is it worth waiting form Polo or go for Fabia? | Reply
  • Arvind K (19 December 2009 20:10)
    vw have been saying they will get polo for the masses then they have to have a competitve price or else they wont click | Reply
  • arup sarmah (30 October 2009 12:30)
    it should be priced reasonably in between 3---4 lakhs and at maximum upto 5 lakhs in order to make a sure hit. | Reply
 naveen (13 December 2009 10:46) Reply to arup sarmah
Will you please talk some sense. You have no idea. First of all..the price depends on the features available in the car. If you are looking for 3-4 lakh, you got lot of other options. A santro wud be a good bet. | Reply
  • Vinod Vyas (26 October 2009 13:31)
    IF the germans really want to hold the indian car markt then they shold be price sensitive becuase Indian consumer still think thousand times before shelling out money even for cars. So I woul drequest and suggest VW pricing of your car is more important in India, Otherwise it will be another Fabia and Honda Jazz. | Reply
  • SAM (14 August 2009 20:53)
    Happy to see that they are getting new Polo here and I'm pretty sure that they are going to price the 1.2 TSI Petrol a notch below Skoda Fabia i.e. around Rs. 4.4-4.8 Lakhs. I am waiting for this car and if its priced higher then Fabia then the only option I have is to buy Fiat Punto!! Which according to me is the best car in this segment. C'mon Maruti get the larger wheelbase Swift with 1.5L/100BHP Petrol engine soon!! | Reply
  • Nagesh (16 July 2009 17:00)
    It should not be a Jazz repeat story again. If VW is really serious about holding a good market share in India and it has really understood the buyer pulse in this market, then it will not go wrong on fixing a price. Hope it will be highly competitive | Reply
  • Unmesh (06 May 2009 15:28)
    The car has to be competetively priced. You can see the differnce in Swift | Reply
  • vikas kapoor (04 May 2009 15:42)
    if volkswagen is going on same skoda and honda stragey pricing there cars its never going to capture the market share | Reply
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