Prior to pulling out of the World Rally Championship at the end of the 2016 season, Volkswagen had been developing a new rally car based on the sixth-generation Polo hatchback. Rather than let the ...

Such a waste. Volkswagen spent untold sums of money and expertise into developing a new Polo for the World Rally Championship, only to pull the plug and shut down the entire operation before it could ...

Volkswagen ended its WRC program on a high note after capturing its fourth consecutive title in 2016. Even then, that didn’t make it easier for anyone to cope with parting w parting way ays with the ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

Push the bookends a bit farther apart on the shelf where you keep the specification sheets for cars you can’t own because Volkswagen just released details for its Polo R WRC. Just like the regular ...

The World Rally Championship has suffered in recent years, but new rules encouraging smaller, more efficient rally cars may be bringing some life back to the event. Due to the World Rally Championship ...

The World Rally Championship is one of the most epic spectacles in motorsports, but sometimes the pace is just too fast. Rally fans are known for camping out in frozen Finnish forests just for a split ...

The rally version of the new Polo R, the WRC variant, to be more specific, will make its competition debut at the Monte Carlo rally, on January 16 - tomorrow. The all-wheel drive Polo, powered by a ...

Volkswagen has released a new video to celebrate 50 years of the much-loved Polo. Titled 50 Years of Polo: Project Drift, it was filmed in and around Nelson Mandela Bay, including Plant Kariega, the ...

It often happens for carmakers to give birth to models that become historically important in one way or another. But only the Germans from Volkswagen can brag about being responsible for making icons ...