This Is The Volkswagen Polo GTI's Meaner, Angrier Brother

Volkswagen has released details of its newest rally car, an R5-spec car that can launch to 62mph in a mere 4.1 seconds...
This Is The Volkswagen Polo GTI's Meaner, Angrier Brother

This is the new Volkswagen Polo GTI’s meaner, harder brother, and it means business.

It’s the sort of new kid that would push others off their chairs for no reason at lunch time. Then it would break the legs off the chairs for good measure and throw the uneaten lunch on the floor. This is a Polo you don’t want to mess with.

This Is The Volkswagen Polo GTI's Meaner, Angrier Brother

We first brought you news of it last month. The four-wheel drive Polo GTI R5 hooligan has a confirmed 268bhp from its four-cylinder, turbocharged 1.6-litre engine, plus permanent four-wheel drive and a close-ratio five-speed sequential manual racing gearbox. It’s got real biceps for a car this small, with 295lb ft of torque bulging from its angry body panels.

While the regular Polo GTI has a 2.0-litre turbocharged engine, it only puffs out 197bhp. Mind you, that’s as much as a MkV Golf GTI had…

This Is The Volkswagen Polo GTI's Meaner, Angrier Brother

The R5 weighs only 1320kg, which is heavy next to a certain classic Porsche build we brought you earlier in the week, but is quite light for a reinforced, steel-bodied, roll-caged and rally-spec supermini.

As such, it catapults to 62mph in just 4.1 seconds. That’s as fast as an Aston Martin DB11, a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and a McLaren F1 LM, according to AutoSnout’s list of 0-62mph times.

This Is The Volkswagen Polo GTI's Meaner, Angrier Brother

Volkswagen makes no secret of the fact that for its first R5-spec rally car it has borrowed heavily from the team at Skoda Motorsport, who have been offering an R5 Fabia rally car to customers since 2015.

The R5 rally class was born in 2012 and is designed to provide a cheaper entry point to global rallying. The Polo GTI R5 will make its way to customers in the second half of 2018 for a maximum of €180,000.

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Comments

Tomislav Celić

I was skeptical about the design TBH of a normal Polo, but the R5 looks nice

And this is coming from a Fiesta fanboy

12/07/2017 - 09:48 |
8 | 2

The previous generation looked wayyy better…

12/07/2017 - 11:29 |
2 | 0
Andreja Životić

Looks really good. I never was a huge fan of Polos but these are really nice. Is the F1 LM 0-60 on old or new tires though?

12/07/2017 - 10:11 |
2 | 0
Rally Maniac (ThePeugeotGuy)

How did they manage to make it this dull? Oh, I forgot it’s Vw. Its really boring compared to any other R5 rally car

12/07/2017 - 10:17 |
3 | 10

Just kidding calm down

12/07/2017 - 19:39 |
0 | 1
Nishant Dash

Can’t wait for the Polo R WRC to return!

12/07/2017 - 10:24 |
35 | 0

I’m silently hoping for a road legal bumped up to 2l FIA RX version of the Polo

12/07/2017 - 11:11 |
8 | 0
Anonymous

Meanwhile…

12/07/2017 - 11:29 |
6 | 3
Nishant Dash

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Ew. 😂😂

12/07/2017 - 11:30 |
0 | 0
P1eased0nteatme

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I actually really like the new R5 and WRC C3 :(

12/07/2017 - 16:21 |
3 | 0
Rally Maniac (ThePeugeotGuy)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

waaaaaaaay better. The Polo is just boring

12/08/2017 - 10:24 |
1 | 0
Anonymous

4.1 doesn’t seem that fast compared to that civic rally car that did it in 1.9

12/07/2017 - 14:27 |
3 | 0
Foolishness (TOYOTA 86 FANBOY)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Yeah but that Civic is a Global Rallycross car, completely different engine regulations to R5

12/08/2017 - 01:21 |
3 | 0
Manuel Kunz

Sooo rally cars are road legal, if I had a racing li ens wouldn’t it be possible to buy this as a track day car?

12/07/2017 - 19:35 |
0 | 0
Rally Maniac (ThePeugeotGuy)

In reply to by Manuel Kunz

No. Its not for sale to the public. Maybe the ford fiesta wrc, but that’s an exception

12/10/2017 - 11:40 |
0 | 0
Lucas Tekkan

Well he can be mean, but not evil as this one

12/07/2017 - 19:37 |
3 | 0
Soni Redx (MD Squad Leader) (Subie Squad Leader)

What this reminds me of..

12/07/2017 - 20:03 |
10 | 0
Anonymous

That thing looks SICK!!!

12/07/2017 - 21:27 |
0 | 0