Although there is no official confirmation, Volkswagen Up! is being seriously considered by VW India for the Indian consumers. Its small dimensions coupled with super efficient engineS make it nearly a perfect entry-level car for India.
However, the VW Up! is only available with a petrol motor which may work against its favor as Indian auto market is dominated by diesel cars.
However, VW has confirmed that the Up! will get a diesel engine very soon. This is not the normal TDI that we find in the Polo and Fabia.
The Volkswagen Up! may have disappointed fans of German engineering by giving the Auto Expo a miss, but here’s medicine to help them move on – sketches of the five-door version of the Up! have been leaked. It’s not a top secret file as VW showcased a concept five-door at the Frankfurt Motor Show with flared wheel arches and fitments.
The three-door Up! is penetrating Europe and UK in a handful of variants such as Take Up!, Move Up!, High Up!, etc. These markets get a 1L petrol engine in two outputs paired to a five-speed manual transmission.
The production model does not have contrasting differences and the minor changes to the bumpers and tail lights featuring a more practical design were expected to turn up during the transition from concept to production. These changes keep costs in check, mighty important considering this is Volkswagen’s cheapest offering.
The Up! in the five-door form bows in at Frankfurt this year (or earlier) and thereafter heads straight for the Indian market. The model allows further capacity utilization at the VW Group’s production facility in Chakan, Pune. The Polo’s 1.2-liter diesel engine is hugely important if the current customer behaviour prevails.
So where is the price going to start? We think this is the ideal vehicle to challenge Maruti in its own game. If Volkswagen can price it similarly to the Beat, they have another Polo in their hands.
VW commercial always tickle your funny bone whether they are made in India or abroad. The company is known to push the boundaries of creativity (and sometimes beyond) with their advertisements. In this new VW Up! commercial the company is mocking all things that are BIG.
The Up!, though taller than the Polo, is the smallest car in the VW portfolio. Clearly, the advert goes to great length to explain how small is the new big. Have a look.
NDTV’s Car And Bike Show fan Sandeep Singh posted these two images of the Volkswagen Up! mounted on a flatbed truck in Delhi on the show’s official Facebook page.
The Up! will be the cheapest Volkswagen in India with prices expected to start at 3.5 lakh rupees. Before Volkswagen brings this Up! to India, it needs to lend it rear doors (model which VW has already featured in TV commercials), beige interiors and a diesel engine. The Up! was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show with a 1-liter petrol engine capable of producing a range of outputs up to 75PS and deliver a pump-beating 23kmpl.
What is this VW Up! doing in India? We have to wait to find out!
Could Volkswagen show the Up! at the Delhi Auto Expo?
A few weeks back, Volkswagen launched a boquet of images into the internet of the three-door Up with preliminary details. Following this development, we asked Shoeb to provide us a rendering of the five door model.
At the ongoing Frankfurt Motor Show VW displayed five more concept car variations of the production-ready Up small car. The fifth and final concept is very interesting as it is the only one with five doors. Volkswagen will not sell cars with three doors in India as rear seat is of paramount importance in any segment due to our back seat travel habits.
The Cross Up! is a concept car but it shows us how five-door car will look like. The Cross variants have rugged bumpers, padded wheel arches and added under-body protection. If you remove them and the Cross Up signatures, adorn it with slimmer tires, you have the regular hatchback that we expect in India next year.
Time and again Skoda India has said that a car under the Fabia is essential if it wants to expand its market presence. Having seen the lackluster approach in launching variants, especially in the last 18 months, and following a group company’s typical strategy of playing second fiddle to VW products in many segments, Skoda’s version of the Up! might not be launched in India simultaneously or within a short time period.
Skoda presented many products at the Auto Expo in New Delhi last year and planned to introduce many of them in India.
The only products that came to the market were Yeti and the Skoda Laura vRS.
So the question we’re asking is will it take the Skoda Joyster/Youngster a year or more after the Up to appear? Will the delay and familiarity have a negative showing on the Skoda small car?
Volkswagen might want to wait for the Up to settle down before the Youngster/Joyster drives in. The Fabia sedan-Vento have followed the same procedure and it might be the protocol for all products that occupy the same segment and are priced similarly.
Volkswagen has chosen to not wait until the Frankfurt Motorshow to unveil the VW UP. So here we have the first official images of the VW Up which is going to be VW’s cheapest car in India ever. Of course, it will also be launched in Europe and America because fuel efficient cars are very much in demand over there as well. The UP is an entry level hatchback that [ Read More ]
The Volkswagen Up! will make its world premiere on the 22nd of August at the Paris Grand Palais on the Champs-Elysees, a prestigious venue in France according to some reports that have appeared on the internet. According to vwup.blogspot.com, the premiere will kick off at 8PM. The Up’s the most anticipated in recent years and will give access to the segment here in India ruled by the Maruti Wagon R and Hyundai i10.
We have no confirmation from Volkswagen yet, though these reports claim that it was Volkswagen that made this announcement. All along we were in the belief that VW will bring the Up! to the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Sister brands Skoda and SEAT will build their versions of the Lupo that are likely to be christened Skoda Youngster and SEAT Arosa, according to media reports that have emerged in the last few months.
Although there is no official confirmation, Volkswagen Up! is being seriously considered by VW India for the Indian consumers. Its small dimensions coupled with super efficient engineS make it nearly a perfect entry-level car for India.
