Volkswagen Isn't Planning to Send the Polo to the U.S.

It would just cannibalize sales from the Golf, actually.  Adding models, be they crossovers, trucks, convertibles, or whatever is not always the rational way to build a business.

Agree, makes no sense to bring this over especially when doing so with an EV model makes more sense.

Kinda sad....I did like the idea of it coming over....as it always had a classic look and was nice to drive.

That said, wouldn't make sense to have a Polo starting near 20 grand here either.....

Well, duh. There was never any REAL danger of this making it to our market. 

And sadly, it's probably for the best. As much as I'd love a Polo GTI, there would be to much overlap with the Golf, and the sales numbers probably wouldn't support it. Also, VW NA has shown themselves to be incredibly incompetent at figuring out what trim levels to build, how to equip and price them, etc, etc. They're about to bring out a brand-new Tiguan that even in 38K SEL Premium form won't have ventilated seats. So dumb. Takes it off my potential list of vehicles to replace my wife's Rav4. From what I can tell, the new Arteon won't offer them either.

5 minutes ago, Frisky Dingo said:

Well, duh. There was never any REAL danger of this making it to our market. 

And sadly, it's probably for the best. As much as I'd love a Polo GTI, there would be to much overlap with the Golf, and the sales numbers probably wouldn't support it. Also, VW NA has shown themselves to be incredibly incompetent at figuring out what trim levels to build, how to equip and price them, etc, etc. They're about to bring out a brand-new Tiguan that even in 38K SEL Premium form won't have ventilated seats. So dumb. Takes it off my potential list of vehicles to replace my wife's Rav4. From what I can tell, the new Arteon won't offer them either.

I love VW but they are very good at shooting themselves in the foot. Scirocco anyone?

23 minutes ago, Frisky Dingo said:

Well, duh. There was never any REAL danger of this making it to our market. 

And sadly, it's probably for the best. As much as I'd love a Polo GTI, there would be to much overlap with the Golf, and the sales numbers probably wouldn't support it. Also, VW NA has shown themselves to be incredibly incompetent at figuring out what trim levels to build, how to equip and price them, etc, etc. They're about to bring out a brand-new Tiguan that even in 38K SEL Premium form won't have ventilated seats. So dumb. Takes it off my potential list of vehicles to replace my wife's Rav4. From what I can tell, the new Arteon won't offer them either.

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I wonder if that would be true a few years back where small vehicles were the rage. I would really like to have a Polo GTI since that is likely all of the vehicle I would need. But as you noted above (and I have bolded), this is one of the things that Volkswagen hasn't figured out and makes some of their vehicles less appealing to me. Hence, I'm ok we don't get the Polo.

Yeah, five years ago or so when the Fiesta, Sonic, Versa, Fit etc seemed to be The Next Big Thing, maybe.  Now, not so much..what they need for the US now is a small CUV, maybe Polo based..something below the Tiguan. (from the article it said 2 more are coming--the new Touareg and something below the Tiguan, perhaps? )

Agreed with Cubical, the Polo wouldn't sell here.  They need a CUV smaller and cheaper than the Tiguan, which I know they have on the way.

economic crash, manic tightening of FE regs, and expensive gas made compacts and subcompacts an option just a few years ago.

Now, economy is decent, and gas is dirt cheap.

Better to invest resources into keeping the Golf line viable.