Road Test: 2013 Volkswagen Polo Vivo Maxx

 

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“Nice isn’t a very nice word,” my English teachers used to tell me growing up, it’s a bland adjective and one no one would be happy to be described with.  They were right, but wrong, for if there was no such word as “nice”, what would we compare all other adjectives to?  You see, we need the boring, we need the bland, we need the mundane, especially in the automotive world, otherwise we’d never know an exciting car when we drove it.  So would our Polo Vivo Maxx be mundane or mouth-watering to test out?

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“VW Golf”, a name synonymous with the term “the people’s car”, after all, most of us at some stage or another have driven a Citi Golf, or owned one, or learnt to drive in one; not to mention the fact that many of our parents did the same.  So the Golf moniker has been around for some time, and it has always been known as the hatchback to set the bar, the benchmark so to speak.  Now, with the 7th generation at hand, we begged the question, does this once again retain “benchmark” status?  We had a week with the new Golf to find out…

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Differences between VR6 and V6 engine layout:

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The cylinder layouts of an inline-4, a standard V6, and a VR6 engine.

There are many misconceptions bandied about when one particular engine layout is spoken of, the VR6.  It is often confused for a V6 layout, so we decided to clear up the confusion, as per your requests.  Now I know there will be qualified engineers complaining that I missed out on this and that, so to clear the record, this is a simple explanation to differentiate the 2 engine layout in layman’s terms, as little technical jargon as possible.  As such, I will not delve into inlet and outlet ports, block construction etc.  So, let’s get to it:

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