2022 Volkswagen Polo Review – Still the Compact Champion?

Ciro De Siena

22 Apr 2022

In this review, Ciro de Siena takes a look at the facelifted Volkswagen Polo. If you want to buy the Polo, watch this video.

The facelifted Volkswagen Polo has gone on sale in South Africa and it’s an important model, with the factory in the Eastern Cape supplying both the Polo and GTI for local consumption and export.

With a stellar sales success in SA, expectations of this new model are high. Our video guy Ciro de Siena gets to grips with what’s changed, what’s new and whether this is still the compact hatchback to buy.


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Further Reading

Volkswagen Polo Specs and Pricing for 2022

Ciro De Siena

Ciro De Siena

Ciro built his first car website back in his university days and despite denting his first ever test car, it launched his career. He's still at this car journalism gig 16 years later and over the years has hosted live TV segments on national television and hosts a regular car segment on CapeTalk radio. He is most at his happiest however producing content for the Cars.co.za Youtube channel.

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