Volkswagen Crosspolo test drive since 2010 Minivan
The ponies of girls are rolled ...
Pony boys rolls. Pony runs in a circle and counts circles in the mind. Polo-Poli species is special: these horses, although not ponies in the classical sense (Pony-Mania!), But not entirely horse: their growth is limited by 155 centimeters. Full -size horses are usually higher. But not faster or stronger. Rather, not always. Because Polo Poponi should be smart, fast and dexterous. And resilient to the same. To grow a good player from a newborn pony, it takes three long years. The best ponies are cultivated in Argentina.
This blue pony Polo has been growing in Germany a little longer since 2001. So, and it must be first -class! And now, when four -year -old Konik went to the next circle, we again decided to travee it. The reason was restyling: a set of measures that allows you to make a new one from a not too new car.
In general, the car has not changed much, but very noticeable: almost all the modernization was on the appearance of Polo. The expression of the muzzle here is completely different: there was passatical seriousness. The headlights like Passat, the V-shaped radiator grille is also like Passat. Even the rear lights echo with the Passat: the main optical element here is the same round, expressive, multi -pixel. By the way, Volkswagen Polo classic ponies: his height stopped at 147 centimeters. Only now folk is too blue horses of such a defiant color in nature. Unless, of course, it is specially not painted.
I am more resilient than many a camel and a horse. Bend your legs and sit on me! Inside, restyling reveals itself in a new steering wheel and other upholstery materials. Everything else is the same, familiar. Although Polo with a machine gun on our test for the first time. Well, how is it? Despite the fact that in fact, the car, albeit updated, is four years old this year, the small VW is perceived as a very modern car. He is very light and understandable in management: he smoothly touches and vigorously accelerates, independently crossing the gears in an automatic box. Not a gallop, definitely. Rather, a peppy lynx. But the absolute absence of tension. The car is so easy to control that it is even boring: it does not smell even with action even if you go actively. If you want to go quickly quickly. There is still no difference: just the speed grows incredibly. This is not 60 km/h, maximum for living polo-poni! There is a little one hundred. On the speedometer. And even one and a half hundred: a kilometer per centimeter of horse growth. Better slow down and turn around. The brakes are the most precise: the course is short, and predictability is one hundred percent. The steering wheel is equipped with an electric power, in the nature of behavior resembling an ordinary gur: reproaching the steering in excessive synthetics will not turn my tongue. Though Polo and a small horse, but not easy. Pretty advanced horse. You can not be a child’s pony: only electronic abbreviations (like ABS, EDS, ASR, ESP), you can apply mom do not grieve! So the Horse -Wrong must have money on a pocket, as a different adult horse.
And who said that the horse polo sport for the plebeians? Rather, for playboys. Or their victims. The young ladies of any age from kindergarten to Balzakovsky such a pony will seem like the end of dreams. Alive so, cheerful
Mom, buy a Konik?
Autography
Volkswagen Polo v
Polo IV predecessor (1994)
Premiere September 2001
Modernization Spring 2005
Hatchback body (3- or 5-dv), sedan
Engines 1.2-2.0 l (55-130 hp)
ITALDESIGN design
Production of Spain, Brazil, Slovakia, China, South Africa
Expected replacement 2007
The car was provided by the company Autocenter Pulkovo. The official dealer Volkswagen
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Ostanin
Source: Wheel magazine [No. 95/2005]
