VW ‘Polo P’ project – imparting skills to young drivers

VW ‘Polo P’ project – imparting skills to young drivers

Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) today launched the “Polo P” project, dedicated to educating and empowering newly-licensed probationary drivers with skills and knowledge to stay safe on the road.

The Polo P project will take place at selected college and university campuses. Over the course of a weekend, young participants will be taught basic car maintenance, visual checkpoints, proper sitting and steering positions, and defensive driving, which includes emergency braking and a slalom course.

All driving exercises will be conducted in the Volkswagen Polo hatchback, which VPCM says is the perfect ride for the young, and young at heart. The B-segment five-door hatch is powered by a 1.6 litre MPI engine with 105 PS and 153 Nm of torque. The naturally aspirated four-pot is mated to a six-speed conventional automatic transmission with Tiptronic. Claimed combined fuel consumption is 6.3 litres per 100 km.

The Polo P project kicks off this weekend at UTAR’s Sg Long campus. The initiative will head to Nilai University on April 8-9, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus on July 8-9 and Sunway College (Johor Bahru) on August 19-20.

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Danny Tan

Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.

 

Comments

  • Kelab copypaste kunta on Mar 25, 2017 at 6:27 pm

    Beautiful and solid car.

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    • How come not local car for our graduates?

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      • basherlogic on Mar 26, 2017 at 6:15 pm

        Why buy a car with No RV and comes with so many problems? Better student buy Axia. Half the price and holds value well.

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      • Ah Kow on Mar 27, 2017 at 8:08 am

        Meanwhile P1 sales team sitting in ofis minum teh goyang kaki

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      • Tiara on Mar 27, 2017 at 11:29 am

        Syabas Polo! Ramai remaja skrg yang memandu tanpa lesen kat kawasan kampung

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    • DSGsuck on Mar 25, 2017 at 10:26 pm

      DSG kaput, how?

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      • You need to crawl out of the “tempurung”. the DSG issue is over.
        Typical of people who never owned a vw, still thinking DSG is the only issues with VW. There are others too , at least give us something new to argue about. Not the DSG, OK! it has been too many years talking something no longer valid…
        Wait until 2020 also, still talking about DSG….huh?

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        • Aikon on Mar 27, 2017 at 8:25 am

          Well, people still talk about Proton’s windows even though the matter has long been banished…

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          • changi on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:19 am

            Enjin pistons cracked under Mesia hot climate

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        • Tan Siew Lee on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:04 am

          VW Malaysia facebook still got so many complaints in March 2017

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      • kadajawi (Member) on Mar 26, 2017 at 10:50 pm

        This car doesn’t have DSG…

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    • Mohd Jamal Ibrahim on Mar 26, 2017 at 7:42 am

      Why give young student more debt? They already got student loan to pay.

      Polo RM70k. 2 years later the Polo is worth RM20k. Student must top up about RM30k his loan when he sells his car.

      buy better RV car like City, Vios or Almera. Almera buy RM65k. 3 yrs later still RM50k

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      • Muthusammy Loo on Mar 26, 2017 at 4:05 pm

        “buy better RV car like City, Vios or Almera. Almera buy RM65k. 3 yrs later still RM50k”

        That one only for City (with VSA). Almera and even Vios (toyota high RV is tipu punya), you should be grateful if it’s worth even RM30k after 3 years.

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      • Rashami Desai on Mar 26, 2017 at 8:49 pm

        I fully agree!

        City, Vios and Almera are also much slower, thus much safer for newly-licensed probationary drivers!

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      • kadajawi (Member) on Mar 26, 2017 at 10:51 pm

        Where got Polo for 20k? Wanna buy.

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      • Same L0rr on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:11 am

        Yup. Buy axia 1.0 better. Affordable, reliable & Good rv..

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      • Mikey on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:41 am

        This is a IMPARTING SKILLS project. NOT selling Polo to the students. How is imparting skills get the students into Loans may I ask ??

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    • basherlogic on Mar 26, 2017 at 6:31 pm

      Polo got no dsg but also breakdown a lot

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  • Kelab Penyayang Kunta on Mar 25, 2017 at 6:44 pm

    Not a good idea for students to have a VW. VPCM says it is perfect for the young at heart. Not true.

    The young need time to study. With a VW, they will be spending all their time in the SC sorting out repairs and breakdowns….how to study like this?

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    • Kelab Pembenci Kunta on Mar 25, 2017 at 9:48 pm

      Nothing good comes out from your mouth? Is this your full time job bashing? Full of negativity. You are always in the limelight, but, yes, for the wrong reason. Get a life dude. It’s ok to speak out, but speak the truth.

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    • Boring samy on Mar 25, 2017 at 10:09 pm

      Same boring post from no life guy

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    • lol.. agree

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    • Katakman kunta on Mar 26, 2017 at 10:41 am

      Dude, just get lost. People are fed up with your complaints and rants. A negative man indeed.

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      • Pity guy kinte on Mar 27, 2017 at 4:38 pm

        I seen a number of same patients at my clinic. This type of people in reality has no confidence and always very shy. He needs medication and his family to take care of him

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    • BeemerFreak on Mar 26, 2017 at 12:07 pm

      You are wrong then. No cars are perfect for school going kids/teens. All cars need to be maintained and taken care of. To reduce time wasted, they should all take public transport. Can study in the bus, no need to concentrate on our stupid traffic jams.

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    • Philip Tan on Mar 26, 2017 at 12:55 pm

      This Kunta fella must have failed his spm. Such a dork with useless comments.

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      • Nazri Ghani on Mar 26, 2017 at 4:57 pm

        The truth hurts. Especially to VW Salesman or VW owners who now cannot even sell their cars. NO RV at all.

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        • U wrong. One of Kunta@albert personalities r VW salesman, another personality is toyota salesman, another hates all car brands.
          U know what this means, right?

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        • Hisyam Karim on Mar 26, 2017 at 9:04 pm

          Resale value, my foot. Toyota used to be high resale value last time. Now? It doesn’t fetch that high anymore. Get a car for the enjoyment and driving pleasure.

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          • Kelab Penyayang Kunta on Mar 27, 2017 at 11:14 am

            Enjoy now but when sell the car, are you going to give RM20k to settle the bank when they say you must top up the loan???

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        • Tan Siew Lee on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:01 am

          how to enjoy when u wait for tow truck to come?

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    • Tan Siew Lee on Mar 27, 2017 at 8:59 am

      car always breakdown, bad for student lor. after miss exam or lecture

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      • Kelab pembenci Kunta on Mar 27, 2017 at 11:07 am

        Kunta disguised as Tan Siew Lee detected. Dirty Kunta.

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  • Aryatamal on Mar 25, 2017 at 7:20 pm

    July only come to Sunway ah. I change my license to D already loh.

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  • JB_KIA on Mar 25, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    hey, VPCM. Gimme 7-spd DSG laa….Conventional AT gearbox so low tech. I dowan!

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  • Anything But P1, Greedy P2 on Mar 25, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    Why is the quality of the interior dashboard plastics for Malaysian Polo is hard and not soft like the European Polos? Why does the Malaysian Polo doesn’t have traction control? Only two airbags? rear drum brakes?

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    • KeemK on Mar 25, 2017 at 10:06 pm

      I think it is a cost cutting measure taken by VGM because apparently Polo’s sale in Malaysia is not reaching their expectation I guess

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    • malaysiaz on Mar 26, 2017 at 1:12 am

      dun buy this if the spec do not suit you. go import from europe yourself

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    • malaysiaz on Mar 26, 2017 at 8:50 am

      Go get other car, forget about polo then. is your choice to pick a car you like.

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    • Thomas Jacob on Mar 26, 2017 at 10:28 am

      I lived in Belgium for 3 months for job assignment, my rented Polo has lower interior quality then Malaysia Polo.

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  • Only to IPTS coz only IPTS students could afford those

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  • Mikey on Mar 25, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    IMO. VPCM is doing a wonderful job of educating young people to know about cars particularly IMPARTING drivers with skills & knowledge to stay safe on the road.

    The best part is its over the weekend & students will be taught basic car maintenance, visual checkpoints, proper sitting, steering positions, defensive driving, which includes emergency braking & a slalom course.

    This young people are so lucky to get VW to sponsor the project. I want to congratulate that person who initiate such proactive programme for the schools. Good job who ever U are. Hope it will be expended nationwide for others too.

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  • Semi-Value (Member) on Mar 26, 2017 at 2:23 am

    start from young…get unreliable car. learn how to not buy vw when grow up.

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  • Hot hatch suitable for all.

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  • Aiyo.. VW’s business development unit should be fired. Wrong target segment… UTAR? Should be ruled out. Go Taylors or Sunway for a start.

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    • May i know why you think UTAR is the wrong segment?

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      • I’m speaking from a business perspective. It costs money and resources to run such events and what do car retailers hope to gain from all this? Certainly not to educate young drivers. The answer is sales.

        Now let’s set aside all prejudice, be realistic and let facts speak for itself. Drive around Sunway or Taylors and you’ll see more students driving VW, B-segment Japs and still many Myvis. Then drive to UTAR and you’ll see a vast difference in the cars there. Yes many do drive (some even with decent cars) however a majority still take the bus.

        Long story short (and without offense) – Their families obviously do not have the resources to splurge on education (UTAR is almost FREE), what more a continental car for their kids? It just doesn’t make business sense to target this segment.

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  • 70k car no esp no support.Shame on u volkswagen malaysia

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    • Hello on Mar 27, 2017 at 5:11 pm

      So u want 70k with sun roof, 360 view, 7 airbag, 200hp, nappa leather, auto driving ?

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  • EnergyAnalyst on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:09 am

    I must admit once these youngsters get themselves a Polo, there will be in for a good lesson. For better or worse both

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  • EnergyAnalyst on Mar 27, 2017 at 9:11 am

    What is slalom course?

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  • passion on Mar 27, 2017 at 11:29 am

    learn to drive properly then buy another car please. if you really want a VW then please keep a kapchai or another car on standby.

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  • Matjava on Mar 27, 2017 at 11:32 am

    My L car was Datsun 120Y.. lagi best.. no power steering no ABS (40 yrs ago). MT..

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  • Bernard on Mar 27, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    I don’t think this will change the mindset of msian drivers

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