Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Barely a month after Volkswagen launched the Polo GT TSI, Pete’s Performance hooked it up to a laptop, scrutinised its brains and gave it a slight ego massage. The moody black car you see is the result.
And for those who bought the Polo 1.6 and aren’t ready to trade up yet, we have with us the white car. It too has been fettled at Pete’s technical centre in Kochi and, going by the sound of its rorty free-flow exhaust, there’s plenty of promise.
Our test conditions today are almost perfect. The standard Polo GT TSI is still fresh in my mind from the Mumbai drive, Pete’s has taken police permission to close a road for us to test on, we are at sea level and the cool, pre-monsoon weather is nothing like the draining humidity of the Kochi I grew up in. And after we are done with the acceleration tests, the plan is to head to the hills through some of Kerala’s brilliantly surfaced back roads. Shall we get at it then?
