{"id":221057,"date":"2018-01-25T08:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=221057"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:27:29","slug":"new-volkswagen-polo-launches-in-south-africa-official-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/221057\/new-volkswagen-polo-launches-in-south-africa-official-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Volkswagen Polo launches in South Africa &#8211; official pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has officially launched its sixth-generation Polo in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Polo promises to be a significant departure from previous Polo models being designed from the ground up, including new engine sizes, interior options and\u00a0the adoption of Volkswagen\u2019s new MQB platform architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The new Polo is longer by 81 mm, 63 mm wider and 7 mm lower than the outgoing model.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being longer, wider and lower off the ground than current Polo models, it also boasts a\u00a0new cabin design, including a selection of different trim colours.<\/p>\n<p>Car advertising website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cars.co.za\/motoring_news\/volkswagen-polo-2018-specs--pricing\/44527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cars.co.za<\/a> has published the full list of official prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.0 TSI 70 kW Trendline &#8211;\u00a0<strong>R235 900<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>1.0\u00a0TSI 70 kW Comfortline &#8211;\u00a0<strong>R264 700\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>1.0 TSI 70 kW Comfortline DSG &#8211;\u00a0<strong>R280 700<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>1.0\u00a0TSI 85 kW Highline &#8211;\u00a0<strong>R286 200<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>1.0\u00a0TSI 85 kW Highline DSG &#8211;<strong>R302 200<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-3-768x512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218541 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-3-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-3-768x512-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-2-768x512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218543 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-2-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-2-768x512-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-1-768x512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218539 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-1-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New-Polo-1-768x512-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/219999\/top-10-best-selling-passenger-cars-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 10 best-selling passenger cars in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has officially launched its sixth-generation Polo in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,6636],"class_list":["post-221057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221057"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221077,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221057\/revisions\/221077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}