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2013 Volkswagen Polo R WRCs break cover
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Post an impactful world premiere of its rally Polo and a separate sporty production version in Monaco, the new year will present a fresh start for Volkswagen in the world of motorsports as it gears up for its first ever FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) starting with the iconic Rally Monte Carlo (15-20 January)
The production counterpart and namesake of the rally car in Monaco: the Polo R WRC Street is a tamer civilian version of the rally beast. It also possesses a very imposing exterior, with its white paint job, blue/grey stripes, WRC-style bumpers and 18-inch alloy rims.
Under the bonnet is a powerful 2.0-litre TSI engine that produces 220PS and 350 Nm of torque. If you manage to take it from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.4 seconds on a public road (highway advisable) consider yourself a true connoisseur of its real world potential.
Compared to the rally model the production version is a little more subdued with design elements like for example horizontal stripes running the length of the sides and stripes on the roof, which give the car a cleaner look than the Wörthersee version. Even on the inside the street version is decked to enhance on road performance keeping the driver strapped into Leather and Alcantara bucket seats with a three-spoke steering wheel and aluminum pedals for making those precise manoeuvres.
So how well would Volkswagen’s opening tryst with the world of rallying come to pass and how skilfully would its specially developed Polo R WRC rally car tackle asphalt, gravel, mud, ice and snow at the 2013 World Rally Championship? Only time tell.
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prakash
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kamlesh
hello just wanted to share my experience with volkswagen vento car.purchased it on 28th nov and i get a flat tyre after 8 days. the roadside puncturewallah immediately brought to my notice that the tyre was already damaged. i did not repair the puncture, hoping that volkswagen would replace the tyre as it was defective when delivered. after numerous visits and email exchanges, i was politely told that the tyre co jk tyres rejected my claim and therefore could not entertain my request for replacement. my question is how am i to know that the tyre was defective at the time of delivery, why should volkswagen wait for a rep from jk tyres to process my claim, and why could not volkswagen trust its customer? is there any way that i could have known that the new car would have come with a defective tyre. it could have been damaged by the dealer while transporting it from depot and the person concerned might have patched it up. Is it not the dealer's duty to check at its end for verifying whether it was their mistake? how as a consumer/customer am to safe gaurd against this sort of mischief/bad delivery?
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Ashutosh
Consumer Court is the answer. Drag them to court and make them pay.
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