My sister asked me to accompany her to test drive some new cars, specifically the polo, fiesta and corsa.
We drove the Polo TSi Comfortline thinking it was going to be the best out of the bunch, but we were in for a shock.
Firstly the interior looked dated as if it had come from a car a decade back and plastic chrome strips had been added everywhere. It gave the impression that the designers had a very limited budget and just took an old design and tried to bling it up a little. It wasn't offensive, just excitement sapping.
The ride wasn't much better. It's suspension was the least sofisticsted between the new corsa and the fiesta. The engine however was poor. At idle it's fairly silent. But touch the accelerator and it growns loudly. There is also an irratating delay between prodding the accelerator anything happening. It felt very weak and unreaponsive in relation to the others. The gear change was very notchy, with 1st gear not engaging smoothly. It could have just been that car though, although it only had 5000km on the clock.
On top of it all VW offered R20k less trade in than the other dealers.
We drove the corsa 1.0T and fiesta trend 1.0T which both had great suspension, decent interiors and were well specced. Both their engines where silent and powerful with instant responsiveness. The Corsa had few off putting body panels, but made up for it with the intellilink entertainment system which pairs with your android/ios phone and does navigation and other apps and self parking and blindspot assist. The fiesta looked decent inside and out, but didn't have the additional tech.
We drove the Polo TSi Comfortline thinking it was going to be the best out of the bunch, but we were in for a shock.
Firstly the interior looked dated as if it had come from a car a decade back and plastic chrome strips had been added everywhere. It gave the impression that the designers had a very limited budget and just took an old design and tried to bling it up a little. It wasn't offensive, just excitement sapping.
The ride wasn't much better. It's suspension was the least sofisticsted between the new corsa and the fiesta. The engine however was poor. At idle it's fairly silent. But touch the accelerator and it growns loudly. There is also an irratating delay between prodding the accelerator anything happening. It felt very weak and unreaponsive in relation to the others. The gear change was very notchy, with 1st gear not engaging smoothly. It could have just been that car though, although it only had 5000km on the clock.
On top of it all VW offered R20k less trade in than the other dealers.
We drove the corsa 1.0T and fiesta trend 1.0T which both had great suspension, decent interiors and were well specced. Both their engines where silent and powerful with instant responsiveness. The Corsa had few off putting body panels, but made up for it with the intellilink entertainment system which pairs with your android/ios phone and does navigation and other apps and self parking and blindspot assist. The fiesta looked decent inside and out, but didn't have the additional tech.
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