A pack of information about Volkswagen’s new launches in India reveals that the premium cars will have novel features to share about. The India-spec Polo is to be offered in both versions – petrol and diesel- and will have manual transmission as well as automatic transmission. This premium hatch has undergone testing modes with the pre launch production has commenced to be followed by the commercial production in the early 2010.further, the German automotive conglomerate is to have a notch car on the lines of this Polo, exclusively targeted for the Indian market in a wider, longer design.
In addition, the car will exhibit more legroom than the original Polo only to be labelled in a different name. It is assured that the car will exert better quality and smooth drive for the likes of the Indian customers. The car will yield a wholly different focus in terms of marketing and target. The company, VW, is on the search for a powertrains to suit the new Indian-spec Polo with new engine features and daring quality to match the competitors in this hatch segment.
VW has earmarked about 50% of localized components for this Polo to reduce the production cost @Rs4.25 lakh. The production factory in Chakan, with a capacity of 1.1 lakh cars a year is to be fully geared to meet the production demands. VW has thus mapped its growth route for the next 6 years so that the market share would also be increased to 8 – 10 percent. The company has a knack of concentrating on all forms of cars- small to premium.