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Push the bookends a bit farther apart on the shelf where you keep the specification sheets for cars you can’t own because Volkswagen just released details for its Polo R WRC. Just like the regular ...

Volkswagen announced earlier this year that it would be entering the World Rally Championship starting in 2013 with the Polo R, and we got our first glimpse of the race car here in Frankfurt. While it ...

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 and thus ...

The World Rally Championship is one of the most epic spectacles in motorsports, but sometimes the pace is just too fast. Rally fans are known for camping out in frozen Finnish forests just for a split ...

The World Rally Championship has suffered in recent years, but new rules encouraging smaller, more efficient rally cars may be bringing some life back to the event. Due to the World Rally Championship ...

The rally version of the new Polo R, the WRC variant, to be more specific, will make its competition debut at the Monte Carlo rally, on January 16 - tomorrow. The all-wheel drive Polo, powered by a ...

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, the ...

When Sébastien Ogier clinched a eighth World Rally Championship crown in November 2021, he joined an elite club of drivers. The Volkswagen Polo R WRC has been, quite simply, the car that every other ...

If good things really do come in small packages, then the Volkswagen Polo R WRC should be very good indeed. This limited edition performance version of Volkswagen’s micro hatchback could the perfect ...

Volkswagen is taking advantage of new regulations to make its highly successful Polo R rally car faster, more powerful, and safer. The updated racer will make its competition debut at the start of the ...

Volkswagen never made a Polo R… for the road, anyway. It did one for the World Rally Championship, but it shut that down last year. Yet here we have a new one. Created for the FIA World Rallycross ...