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Last Auto account – VW Polo GTI First official pictures of VW’s babyish GTI; boasts 178bhp and a seven-speed paddle-shift gearbox.

FEAST your eyes on the abridged rocket that every hot bear fan has been cat-and-mouse for! This is the all-new Polo GTI – and as Auto Express predicted over 12 months ago,it gets a 178bhp 1.4-litre supercharged and turbocharged four cylinderpetrol engine absorbed up to a seven-speed DSG twin-clutch transmission.

Makingits accessible admission at the Geneva Motor Show next week, the Polo GTI goeson auction in August priced at about £18,000. It will be accessible inboth three and five-door bodystyles.

Using the aforementioned engine asthe SEAT Ibiza Cupra – and the accessible Skoda Fabia vRS – the 1.4 TSIengine boasts 250Nm of torque and should barrage the Polo from 0-60mphin beneath seven abnormal and assimilate a top acceleration of 140mph. That makes italmost as fast as its big brother, the Golf GTI.

Standardtransmission is a seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox, complete withsteering wheel-mounted paddles. It will be commutual to VW’s able XDStraction ascendancy arrangement which electronically mimics a bound slipdifferential.

The abeyance has been uprated with stiffersprings and dampers while the ride acme has been bargain 15mm. Insideand out, the Polo apes the Golf GTI, with 17-inch ‘telephonedial’-style admixture wheels, a attenuate bodykit and accompanying bankrupt pipes. Thecabin gets a flat-bottomed council caster while the seats are clad intartan bolt material.

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