Under the hood is a race-prepped version of Volkswagen’s 1.6-liter STI engine producing something in the range of 300 horsepower. 300 HP! This is a Polo, people. 02-vw-polo-r-wrc-frankfurt-jpg ...

Volkswagen has released a new sketch of its upcoming entrant in the 2017 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) season. The new Volkswagen Polo R WRC rally car is said to be more powerful than the ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 21, 2013 Comment Now! Volkswagen’s Polo R WRC rally car finally made its motorsport debut this past weekend, having taken part in the Rally Monte Carlo in Europe ...

Instead, Volkswagen Motorsport will start the development of the Polo R WRC using a Fabia derived from Skoda’s IRC-spec rally car, with the mule appearing at selected rallies towards the end of ...

The Volkswagen Polo R WRC has been, quite simply, the car that every other team has had to try and beat since it was first launched in 2013. In that short time, the Polo R WRC has already moved to ...

Volkswagen will be out to claim its third ... ALSO SEE: 2016 Cadillac CTS-V Video The 2015 Polo R WRC features the body of the recently updated Polo subcompact but its internals are mostly carried ...

At the same time, Capito also presented an all-new Polo R WRC road car based on the rally car: the fastest Polo ever made. Volkswagen also launched a new website—volkswagen-motorsport.com—with ...

The Volkswagen Polo has been one of the best selling superminis in Europe ever since the current model was launched back in 2009. It's relatively well built and quite spacious, if not a bit bland ...

Volkswagen always ... 35 GTI and the Golf R Cabriolet—and this year is no exception. However, the best of this year’s batch of awesomeness has to be this Polo WRC Street concept, which ...

but now Volkswagen is chasing motorsport success in the World Rally Championship. And in order to meet FIA regulations, the company has had to build 2,500 Polo R WRC high-performance road cars to ...

Volkswagen gave us a first look at their Polo R WRC, a competition version of their Polo R hot hatch destined for the World Rally Championship. Powered by a 1.6L TSI four-cylinder engine ...