Is Volkswagen’s next-level Polo GTI a Petrol-powered Racing Unicorn?

Next Polo GTI is a next-level Volkswagen combustion racer that’s set to keep breeding champions.

Volkswagen has just shown us the second evolution of the current Polo GTI. In the face of its international range falling off the face of combustion engine earth, car fans can look forward to a sharper, sexier nip and tuck on this petrol-powered hot hatch.

But these changes will also carry over to racing, as South Africa’s Volkswagen Polo Cup will continue to develop petrol-powered champions.

Full Width IQ Daytime Lighting

The acme of VW’s Polo range, the 204 hp GTI takes performance, technology, and sportiness to new levels. In a pedigree that stretches all the way back to 1998. Now fully digital at the highest technical level, the latest Polo GTI beings a sharpened new face. There’s a full width LED daylight lighting signature across the grill. And a sharper GTI badge too.

That new face is part of the latest IQ.Light LED matrix headlight package. It perfectly contrasts the famous GTI red stripe that also continues across the grille. There’s more red trim on GTI’s cool racy chequered design chairs. The 2022 car also builds on Polo’s modular transverse matrix platform pedigree to set a new class benchmark in safety and driving comfort.