Volkswagen Polo GTI

Volkswagen Polo GTI will be available in the UK , from September, in bodies of three and five doors. It has powerful 180-horsepower engine that lowers the consumption figure combined with the previous model, in no less than 25 percent.

Sport Chassis Configuration
The chassis of the Volkswagen Polo GTI has undergone major changes with the aim of giving it a more dynamic and sporty. Based on the chassis of the Volkswagen Polo, the front suspension features a McPherson and a coupled arm rear axle, a combination that implies a greater dynamism and some stiffer springs and dampers that lower the ride height from the ground in fifteen millimeters.

The result is less body roll and a lower center of gravity, principles to positively influence the dynamic curve.

Electronic Chassis: systems that control the dynamic frame
The greater dynamism with which you have configured the new Volkswagen Polo GTI is reinforced with a special dose of electronics, with systems to enhance security to enjoy the engine's potential.

Therefore, the brake system has been reinforced with large discs (ventilated front and solid rear) and has been included in the standard equipment a whole arsenal of advanced electronic technology such as the ESP electronic stability system that integrates modules ABS anti-lock braking system, the Hill-start assistant, ASR anti-skid system, the system of regulation of motor inertia MSR, EDS electronic differential lock and indicator for monitoring the tire pressure RKA.

With electronic limited slip differential XDS
The electronic differential limited slip XDS is also available in the Volkswagen Golf GTI and is a function of the system expanded electronic differential lock integrated into the EDS ESP stability control.

Its operation is similar to security that can provide a total drive system, significantly improving traction characteristics and the handling of the car when taking a curve at high speed, keeping the vehicle in neutral direction. The XDS provides pressure to the inside of the bend wheel to prevent skidding, applying the brake to the wheel inside the curve to prevent slipping, restoring the conditions most optimal traction.

The system performance is carried out after a computer analysis done, thanks to information transmitted by a sensor that collects information constantly, the car's steering angle, yaw velocity and revolutions of the wheel, guiding the trajectory of the new Volkswagen Polo GTI with greater precision.

Design: the logical evolution of a legendary sport spirit
The new Volkswagen Polo GTI measured 3976 mm long, 1682 mm wide, 1,452 mm high and has a wheelbase of 2468 mm.

The body of the new Volkswagen Polo GTI, the body variants in three and five doors, exudes the elegance of the conventional versions with maximum aggressiveness make it the sportiest model of all time.

In the grille, and appreciate the classic red color profiles provide a framework for grills and GTI models, like the Volkswagen Golf GTI, the inside of the grille, too, takes the honeycomb structure that serves engine breathing. The same panel also bee found in the ventilation outlets front bumper skirt. Other specific details are stirrups GTI wider rear spoiler and body color.

In the figure, highlight the alloy wheels of 17 inch diameter design Denver, mounted tires in 215/40 R17 87V measure and calipers, red, visible through the wheels.

The rear is finished off with a twin exhaust, chrome, which has been integrated into the left side and the rear apron that incorporates a diffuser at the bottom.

Hundred percent GTI Cockpit
The interior of the Volkswagen Polo GTI exudes pure sportiness. The seats are upholstered in fabric with a classic design like the Volkswagen Golf GTI, in distinction to the elegant tables of the 70 GTI.

The lining of the roof, pillars, handles and roof is black umbrellas sport. The center console panels have also been refined with contrasting gloss black surfaces with matte chrome edges of the air conditioning vents and applications of chrome knobs.

Door handles, shift knob, handbrake button electronic cams DSG and three-spoke leather sports steering wheel finished in matt chrome, while the cover of the gear lever, the handle of handbrake and steering wheel have been decorated with red stitching.

The trunk has a volume of 185 liters.

Maximum equipment, own top model
The new Volkswagen Polo GTI has a fully equipped, comprising aluminum look pedals, front electric windows in the three-door, four electric windows in the five-door variant, door mirrors electrically adjustable and heated, dual climate control area, remote control central locking and fog lamps.

The leather steering wheel has two paddles for the DSG gearbox control to the right and left, with that increase or reduce speed.

The passive safety package includes airbags for driver and front passenger, side airbags, retractors in the front seat belts and anchorages in the rear seat Isofix.

It also introduces for the first time in the range two new elements optional panoramic sunroof electric drive and dual-xenon headlights with LED headlamps and functions of position and function of dynamic cornering lights integrated into the main headlamps.

TSI engine great power
The first sports version developed for the Polo GTI was the Volkswagen Polo G40 Coupe in 1986. This model was the first to ride a mechanical compressor G-Lader, developing 113 horse power which enabled him to reach a top speed of almost 200 km / h.

In 2006, for the first time, the Volkswagen Polo GTI was equipped with a turbocharger, yielding a power of 150 horses, which was increased to 180 horsepower in the Cup Edition version.

In this new generation, incorporating a mechanism already known in the SEAT Ibiza CUPRA, a system equipped with gasoline direct injection, turbocharger compressor, producing 180 peak horsepower at 6,200 rpm and maximum torque of 250 Newton meters, which is made available to the driver from around 2000, remaining constant up to 4,500 revolutions per minute. And, with only 1.4 liters of displacement.

Thanks to this advanced technology, the new Volkswagen Polo GTI, with a weight of 1,184 kilograms, and accelerates from zero to 100 km / h in just 6.9 seconds, reaches a top speed of 229 km / h, offers a six liters consumption hundred kilometers and emits 139 grams of CO2 per kilometer, overcoming the rules of Euro 5 exhaust gases.

With regard to the Volkswagen Polo GTI Cup Edition released in 2006, powered by a 1.8-liter, variable geometry turbocharger, the same power consumption of 7.9 liters per hundred kilometers, a savings in consumption fuel by 25 percent.

Like the GTI version of the fifth generation of the Volkswagen Golf, the engine runs only on unleaded gasoline of 98 octane.

The perfect combination of compressor and turbine
The TSI engine the new Polo GTI is characterized by showing a perfect symbiosis between a mechanical compressor and a turbocharger. The Roots compressor is responsible for increasing the torque at low speed (3,500 RPM) and their operation is carried out with straps and a natural gas internal module integrated into a water pump.

When you reach 3500 rpm, the compressor goes down, leaving all the hands of the turbocharger operation, by adjusting a butterfly, which distributes the intake air, allowing it reaches the turbocharger and the compressor, as parameters engine operation, so both compression systems are permanently connected. When the turbocharger is operating, the damper is open, allowing air to enter through the intercooler to the intake manifold.

With DSG gearbox: bringing the highest level of sportsmanship
The new Volkswagen Polo GTI is offered as standard with automatic dual-clutch seven-speed DSG, which improves the sportiness and driving with fuel economy (also, thanks to its low weight of only 70 kg) and with the ease of use of a manual gearbox.

There are two programs running: fully automatic mode and manual mode, the latter in contaminated through sequential control Tiptronic function or by cams located on the steering wheel as standard equipment.

The transmission operation seven-speed DSG is the use of two clutches of a single disk running dry. Engine power is transmitted to the dual-clutch through the crankshaft through a dual-mass flywheel.

A primary clutch serving to engage the odd gears while the latter is responsible for inserting the gears and reverse pairs. With two clutches, two shafts, three shafts and electrohydraulic control system change, called Mechatronics, you may engage a gear after another without any loss of power between them.

In hundredths of a second, the overall performance of the two clutches, controlled by electro-management system, allows selected one is geared up while the immediately preceding. The point which entry is sought by a march, the first clutch is opened to release one and close the second clutch, the higher gearing that was previously selected.