Updated Volkswagen Polo Vivo goes on sale

Since being introduced in 2010, the Volkswagen Polo Vivo has been South Africa’s top selling model month after month, with over 425 000 Vivo’s finding homes in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa across that period.
Key attributes including affordability, German build quality, enhanced safety, space and comfort have come to define the Volkswagen Polo Vivo.
Refreshed exterior
Now, Volkswagen South Africa have treated their locally developed and built Polo Vivo to a new front-end design, new infotainment, new seat trim as well as enhanced safety features in order to ensure that it remains a competitive choice for South African motorists in a market where new models are launched all the time.
Upfront the new Polo Vivo has been updated with a 2D Volkswagen badge, a redesigned front bumper, including a new bumper skin, upper and lower grille with chrome accents and integrated daytime running lights alongside new headlights from Life models upwards, that offer improved illumination and a modern look.
At the rear there is a new 2D badge too along with the Vivo name in chrome centred below it. A new antenna has been added to the roof. GT models gain black painted mirror caps. The wheel line up consists of the standard 14-inch wheels or optional 15-inch Tosa alloy wheels for the Vivo, 15-inch Ubomi alloy wheels on Life models, 16-inch Portago wheels on Style models and 17-inch Mirabeau alloy wheels on the top of the range GT model.
New interior features
The Vivo, Style and GT derivatives feature new interior trims which add an exciting ambience and feel to the cabin. Ensuring media connectivity and entertainment is a nine-inch Mirgor radio connected to either four or six speakers as well as App-Connect. The seats have been updated with new materials and designs which now include front side airbags on Style and GT models for additional safety.
Updated safety features
Safety updates include Electronic Stability Control, hill start control and remote central locking which is now standard across the range.
Modern engines
The new Volkswagen Polo Vivo range will be offered with 1.4 and 1.6 litre four-cylinder engines as well as a 1.0 TSI three-cylinder petrol engine.
The engine offering starts with the 1.4-litre fitted to the Vivo derivative offering 55kW at 4 800rpm and 130Nm at 3 750rpm while using just 5.5 litres/100km.
The 1.4-litre offered in Life models offers 63kW and 132Nm and will use 5.9 litres/100km on the combined cycle.
The 1.6-litre provides 77kW and 153Nm and can be paired with either a five-speed manual or a six-speed Tiptronic transmission. These models will use 6.2 or 6.5 litres/100km depending on the transmission chosen.
The 1.0TSI fitted to the top of the range Vivo GT boasts 81kW and 200Nm and an impressive fuel consumption figure of 4.8 litres/100km.
Model range and pricing
All Volkswagen Polo Vivo models are sold with a three-year/120 000km warranty.
Polo Vivo 1.4 55kW Vivo R266 600
Polo Vivo 1.4 63kW Life R288 500
Polo Vivo 1.6 77kW Life Tiptronic R320 200
Polo Vivo 1.6 77kW Style R318 000
Polo Vivo 1.0 TSI 81kW GT R356 000