A keen observant will agree that there exists a sinister appeal about certain things that carry a tag of serenity, like the Belladonna, a name which means ‘beautiful woman’ in Italian, but is actually one of the most poisonous plants in the western hemisphere. So, although such things emanate a fragrance of calm and peace, you have to spend some time with them, for the fumes to strike at your nervous system and wait for them to either make you turn pale in pain or release truckloads of endorphin. The latter is what we experienced with the New 2014 Volkswagen Polo GT TSI.
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The perception towards hot hatches in our country is more or less similar. Many like looking at them from a distance and imagine driving one in a virtual world, but when it comes to buying one, they’d rather settle down for something akin to a frugal commercial airliner and hope it takes them to the moon, when they could’ve easily bought an entire Apollo mission for a little more money. As a piece of kit, the Volkswagen Polo 1.2 TSI is the latter.
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Not much has changed as the car is mechanically the same and the only changes are cosmetic, where it now sports some chrome above the goatee, has improved its vision with a new pair of contact lenses and gotten itself a rear bumper with reflectors. Unless you notice the different set of ‘Estrada’ alloys, which though different from the normal 1.5 TDI Polo, are still the same as they were on the old GT TSI. The GT badge on the grille, the tailgate and the GT TSI sticker on the ‘B-pillar’ are further differentiators. Unless you have a keen eye, it is hard to tell that this one is a master when it comes to holding a champion at the game of Polo.