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Volkswagen Polo Highline – Petrol – 75000 km – Ownership Review

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by Sunderdeep Singh // in Car Reviews, Volkswagen

Car Details

Name

Bhushan Kotwal

City

Pune

Car/Brand/Variant

Volkswagen Polo Highline

Year of purchase

2016

KMs on ODO

75000 KMs

Avg. Service Cost

8000

Fuel Efficiency

15 kmpl

Fuel Type

Petrol

Ratings

Sales Experience

Service Experience

Reliability

Fuel Efficiency

Looks

Ride & Handling

Suspension & Comfort

Overall Ratings

Niggles Faced
  • Electronics (Lamps, Power Windows, Gadgets etc)
  • Expensive Spares
Review Comments
Overall Ownership Experience
  • In 2016, I wanted to buy my first car — searching started with Alto and Kwid and ended with a Polo Highline petrol manual (Grey). I think that was my best decision.
  • I do not own a 2-wheeler in a city like Pune for the past 3 years.
  • You do not feel the need to upgrade to a sedan or SUV when you have a Polo. (I am certainly going to complete 15 years and then retire her to my farmhouse.)
  • You feel totally in control while driving on highways (I do not go beyond 80–85 kmph).
  • In city bumper-to-bumper traffic, you do feel the heavy clutch.
  • I go for a 6-hour highway ride every month and do not feel tired.
  • Overtaking on highways is smooth, except when there are more than 2 heavy vehicles to overtake.
  • Mileage: Highway – 17 kmpl; City – 12 kmpl; can go down to 8–9 kmpl at times.
  • Because of the Polo, for my next car I am very reluctant to go beyond VW, Škoda, or Honda.
  • Long story short: you are fortunate if you bought one when it was available.
  • It’s a shame no one offers entry-level cars like this anymore.
Service & Maintenance Experience
  • To be honest, as opposed to public sentiments, annual Polo service is not at all costly — it is around 7–8k a year.
  • Now they offer service packs, and because of that, my last servicing cost only 7 or 8k (don’t remember exactly).
  • I have always done servicing at authorised service centres. Sometimes it feels like they ask you for things that are not necessary, and then the cost shoots up.
  • (I do not want to take even a 0.1% safety risk, so guilty of agreeing to the service person at times.)
  • If you have to change some part, then it is very, very expensive — VW should certainly look into this.
Things You Like & Dislike
Things I Like
  • Build quality, handling, and reliability of the car.
  • Folding rear seat is a big positive for a hatchback.
  • Really good paint quality.
  • Superb build quality — it feels like you own a car, not just a metal box.
  • I feel some other brands’ higher segment cars lack this kind of build quality.
Things I Don’t Like
  • Rear seat space is very less. Cannot accommodate 5 people for a long drive.
  • Two 6-feet persons cannot sit in the front and back seat at the same time.
  • There is no rear A/C, which is a big negative.

Disclaimer: Information is submitted by the owner of the vehicle through online form medium. Volklub-Sunderdeep Singh doesn't take any responsibility to confirm accuracy or authenticity of the information provided. Readers are requested to make their opinion by reading from other means as well and do take a test drive of the car you are interested in and ask all doubts from the authentic service/sales advisors in a particular brand.

Sole purpose of this review is to try providing readers with factual information where other readers have shared their ownership experiences that may help readers for their car buying decision.

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