VOLKSWAGEN is putting the final touches to the next generation of its popular Polo, which is likely to be unveiled at the Geneva motor show early in 2017. Its operations around the world are already ramping up to begin producing the new model, including here in SA.In August 2015, Volkswagen announced it was investing R4.5bn into its plant in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape. That investment is to prepare the plant for the new Polo with production due to commence in 2017 for both the local and export markets.The next-generation Polo will be stretched, as the brand makes its own small car the first supermini in the VW Group to switch to the MQB platform. Unlike the current model which sits on older architecture, the next Polo will introduce the smallest version yet of the MQB platform, called A0.It will also be the first time that the Uitenhage plant has produced an MQB-based vehicle and it remains to be seen if the plant will produce any of the other vehicles that will share the platfor...
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