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I manage to get a quick spin with the polo gti today after the VW called me up. A bit excited, i even drag my lunch partner along for the test drive - as the sales told me that the car will only be in the Juru VW for 1 hours. True enough when i arrive, the car was already all lined up and first test drive bout to take off. The test model was actually a two door - the interior was with Tartan seat, sunroof, denver wheel (he told me detroit will be the actual one and not denver ver.) - black in color. It looked tiny though .. but that wasnt the main point for me.

It is the drive that i care about, so we were forced to wait for around 10 minutes until it was our turn. A quick talk with the Sales explained that all 3 cars allocated for this year had been all booked. The rest will have to wait for next year. After a brief chit chat, it came back and we hop in. As this is a 2 door model, i had to squeeze my 2 colleagues into the car. They are around 57" and 510" hence i can tell that they are not really comfortable at the back.

I pop in, slowly navigate out ... first check .. the inconsistent gear change at low speed we always heard bout ... nope. I dun feel any of those ... probably my own pug was even clunkier hence i did not detect anything there. Then after the slo mo out of the narrow streets, i hit the main road and mash it down. To be honest I was caught off guard by the torque steer .. with 4 person inside, it will be around 1.4 ton as a whole and i was not expecting any torque steer ... the engine sound grumpy too when stretch .. and before i reach the next bend, it was already 140. My balls kinda shrink a bit as I hit 140 as I was used to the lumbering heavy Pug which does not have the agility nor the pickup .. and I was slowing down. Ironically i made a u-turn in front of my own company and head back to VW .. over bumps and so forth the car feels well damped .. although firm. It has a no nonesense feel to it. It feels diff from the Golf TSI .. much more lighter and agile, delivery is punchier and some evident torque steer upon acceleration to be get used to.

Steering is fat and small, a lot of buttons which i dun really care ... With the kind of power and agility . you can really weave in and out like nutcase on the road ... wakaka ...

Anyhow .. that is all i had from the short run ... no verdict here .. im no auto journalist ...but just testing out to fulfill my curiosity! As we walked to the Pug, one of my colleague says this "Your pug looks nicer than the car we tested" ...and my response was "that car was not about the look".

As usual im a sucker for lights .. so i decided to light up the rear boot as i felt the original OEM lighting was certainly not bright enough for my liking. Hence went for a hunt and got 2 strips of amber LED similar to the ones i use for the footwell. This are pretty easy to wire hence you can just go around the boot perimeter ... the hardest task is only opening up the original light casing ..  some pictures to light up the day:

Peugeot 308: new LED addition on the right ... during day time

What you see at night ..

Did the same for the Polo .. on the left this time

What you see at night

With the newly developed Polo R WRC, Volkswagen Motorsport is presenting a road-going prototype for the FIA World Rally Championship. 

The "hottest Polo ever" - as it was called by Volkswagen Head of Development Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg even at its first official airing - will be starting its tour around the globe from 2013 at numerous WRC races. At the heart of this racing version beats a 1.6 l TSI engine with approx. 220 kW / 300 PS power output, which ensures impressive acceleration from naught to 100 km/h in 4.1 seconds.