Volkswagen is working on a mid-life facelift for its fifth-generation B-segment contender, the Volkswagen Polo. Today, we can show you undisguised photos of a facelifted Polo in Europe, thanks to our European spy photographers Automedia.
Although at first glance the Polo looks the same, there are actually quite a few subtle changes up front. The whole bumper design has been revised to look similar to the Passat’s design – the grille now has a double bar, much like that on the Polo 1.6 that was launched yesterday, but the chrome is only at the bottom edge of the grille.
This chrome line continues into the headlamp, where it goes upwards instead of the current Polo, where the same line in the headlamp dips down. We also note the position of the tow hook cover is different.
On the rear, we notice that although the tail lamp design is familiar, the internal graphics are a lot more angular now compared to the more rounded design of the pre-facelift. There’s also what appears to be a faux diffuser-like design on the rear bumper. There’s only one tail pipe to be seen, so this probably isn’t a mule for a Polo GTI.
The changes in the interior are more obvious. The entire central dash area gets a brushed metal background like the Passat. The head-unit has been redesigned, and so has the automatic air-con control panel. The car also gets a revised steering wheel as well as updated stalks.
If you click the interior image above and really zoom in on the full-res version of the image, you’ll notice the strip of buttons above the head-unit is full featured. We notice seat heating buttons as well as a button for adjustable suspension, which is surprising as this feature isn’t available on the current Polo. With the trend of consumers downsizing their car segments, it looks like VW is packing C-segment options into their facelifted B-segment car.
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Less changes on the exterior but many changes on the interior. Looks good though.
….. in the meanwhile, their DSG going down the drain
Msia got so many spoilt DSG boxes!. It would fill a few fields. Maybe 2 or 3 fields if we stack the spoilt dsg boxes on each other
“With the trend of consumers downsizing their car segments,”
The consumers are not ‘downsizing’, the manufacturers are ‘upsizing’ their cars from generation to generation.
The current Polo is bigger than a Golf MK1. No wonder that consumers which prefer a smaller car for whatever reason (parking in overcrowded cities?) choose a ‘downsized’ car like the Polo now instead of a Golf.
Or look at the test driver, people might be ‘upsizing’ as wel hahaha.
The white bloke needs a Santa Fe.. not Polo.
They just changed the both front and back bumper to the Polo GTI bumper, nothing much.
VW Polo Launched in 2009.
Expected a New Polo instead of facelift.
…and this is what I’m talking about…face lift is imminent for the rest of the world and we in Malaysia finally gotten our hands on the CKD model…much like the CKD Jazz.
hahaha facelift? what did they do, change the wheels? LOL
Not a very big fan of the brushed metal. It could be the flash that made it looked like a very light colour, I would prefer it to be a bit darker shade…
The current Polo interior feels a bit cheap, compared to the Rio and the 208. Especially the steering. It is so hard, the rim of it. Hope they will improve the overall material quality.
malaysian got many option now. wait n see who is the winner in 2014
i rather wait for proton gsc..conti feeling, enjoyable handling and very safe. Price also waaaayyyyy cheaper. Pray for turbo version.
they just launched ckd polo here in malaysia, n they facelift it in the europe..alamak..
Ckd for the purpose of finishing the old model. Honda doing the same, ckd jazz 1.5 petrol because new model is coming this year.
2009 launched internationally model.
Shouldnt it coming out a New model instead of facelift?
The front lamps look familiar.Did VW copy Proton or Proton(the rebadging specialist)copy VW?Since Proton is only good at rebadging and copying and doing facelifts and buying outdated engines ,I forecast their sales here:
2013 138,000 units
2014 120,000 units
2015 100,000 units
2016 Tutup kedai.