VW are not the first company to offer a 1.0 3 cylinder turbo petrol and promise great fuel returns, Ford have the Fiesta/Focus on offer and lets not forget the Fiat Twin air engines. Renault/Nissan/Dacia also have a small turbo petrol and I am sure I have missed many others.

Problem is the Ford and Fiat have been widely acknowledged as being pretty rubbish on fuel coming nowhere near the EU figures in most cases. Now I know (as should all car buyers) that the EU figures are only a guide but in the case of these 2 cars the distance they have fallen short is way bigger than the normal 20% or so.

But VAG have shown with the new 1.4 TSI (like I have in my Seat Leon) that great MPG is possible with small turbo petrols. Mine is 140 PS and has averaged 45 mpg in mixed use so far, that is more than I expected (18% short of the EU figure) and when the difference between petrol and diesel is taken into consideration it looks even better, it increases to almost 48 mpg. That is all I was getting from my slower BMW 118D over 5 1/2 yeasr of ownership. Basically my fuel costs have not changed since swapping.

So if the new Polo can manage the mid 50's in the real world it will in my opinion be an achievement but the Polo is quite big now, pretty heavy both of which don't work well with small engines.

They put the "Blue Motion" badge on cars that have stop start technology I have this on a Up I own and quite frankly its b***** awful.

Most models from nearly all manufacturers now have stop/start, its gets the CO2's down and thus we pay less RFL, if you don't like it simply switch it off. My BMW had stop/start and my Seat Leon has it, don't have an issue with it at all.

Edited by skidpan on 28/01/2014 at 16:34

Take a longer test drive next time!

You're very welcome. ;)

The "new" Polo's interior actually looks a nice place to be in.

I guess that's what get's people into VWs.