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You apperceive the New Beetle and Jetta, but you apparently haven’t heard of the Volkswagen Polo. That’s because it’s a berserk accepted archetypal that isn’t awash in the U.S. The baby fuel-efficient car is in its fifth bearing and is awash in Europe and China, a part of added markets.

This year, the redesigned Polo exhausted out competitors from Citroen and Mercedes-Benz and to become the 2010 European Car of the Year. It even exhausted the Toyota iQ auto car, which will be awash in the U.S. beneath the Scion nameplate.

Since seven of Europe’s better car magazines vote on the European Car of the Year, it’s one of the accomplished ceremoniousness a car can receive. Autoblog writes, “It’s the aboriginal time a Volkswagen has won the accolade in some 17 years and alone the additional time Wolfsburg’s taken the cost home in the blaster years back the board aboriginal sat.”

Reuters letters that the Polo’s sales appearance no signs of slowing down. “A agent for VW said accumulated all-around sales of both the old Polo and the new one, which has alone afresh launched the three-door adaptation in Europe, were college in the 11 months through November than those of the old adaptation endure year.”

So why doesn’t VW action this accepted archetypal in the U.S.? Well, it might. According to a Consumer Guide commodity arise in aboriginal 2009, VW was because a U.S. adaptation of the Polo in adjustment to attempt with the Honda Fit hatchback. While that hasn’t arise to fruition, automakers are consistently bringing baby and added fuel-efficient cars to the bazaar – so alone time will tell.

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