>Polo:  VW needs a small car.  The Golf V is huge, so really is the Golf IV.
>There are lots of small and cheap cars in North America that are selling
>extremely well in the 15.000 range - VW isn't one of these companies
>anymore.  The Golf I [Rabbit] sold extremely well as it was simple, small
>and cheap - something that today's VWs are not.  Wouldn't you rather have a
>VW Polo instead of a Chevy Cavalier?

The Polo is a dud. Junk engine (that 1.6 is gutless); understeer &
more understeer. Unless VW has done something about this with the new
generation (not sure last year's  Polo has been replaced with a new
car).

>if VW offered the Toureg with a 2.5TDI--either a
>hopped up five or a V6--people would have lined up
around the block for a nearly 30mpg SUV for $35k.

30mpg in a 2.5-tonne tank?? C'mon!
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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