VW Polo Fox - An everyday hero
Summary
It looked as if a normal Polo had fallen into a paint bucket shortly before completion: with reduced equipment, an interior covered in body color and wheels painted in the same color, the VW Polo Fox set out at the end of 1984 to appeal to a more youthful clientele. Today, the former economy model is threatened with extinction. An enthusiast from Germany has rescued a saima green Fox from the first year of production, which illustrates this article about the long-lived special model.
This article contains the following chapters
- Children's coffins, baked goods or hunting rifles?
- Heart-warmingly shocking
- It's so saima green
- From special edition to series model
Estimated reading time: 9min
Preview (beginning of the article)
He is not fast. It is not big. It is not unique. It was not even produced in a small series. It was not expensive to buy and was not taken to the USA by a GI only to be discovered decades later in a scrapyard in Arizona as an unrecognized rarity. It is truly not an object of speculation and never will be. He is the opposite of all that, an "underdog". Its siblings were passed through and used up, if they survived the German scrappage scheme of 2009 at all. Today, the car has largely disappeared from the streetscape and is on the verge of being forgotten. We are talking about the VW Polo. No, not the fast Polo G 40 with a G-charger and 113 hp. But "just" a normal Polo hatchback, a hero of everyday life.
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