Volkswagen has sharpened the price and added equipment to the GTI. Should you wait for the facelift or buy now?
For the new Polo GTI VW has ditched the smaller engine, instead opting for a downsized version of the 2-litre unit found in the Golf GTI and R and the Polo GTI’s close rival Audi’s S1.
That remains to be proven. Electrification also means that, after 49 years and more than two million sales, the updated, eighth-generation Golf GTI ‒ a Mk8.5 in VW-speak – is the last of its kind.