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To spark AIMS visitor interest Volkswagen has unveiled the hot-hatch Polo GTI.
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
15 Oct 2010
1 min read

Volkswagen unveiled its Golf Bluemotion that boasts a 3.8 litres/100km average without using electric motors. Volkswagen Group Australia managing director Anke Koeckler says some owners will be able to drive 1400km without refuelling.

But evolutionary it is, visually exciting it is not. It just looks like any other Golf.Ā  To spark AIMS visitor interest, however, Volkswagen has unveiled the hot-hatch Polo GTI. The five-door on display will be sold from next month.

One of the most important models in Volkswagen’s future, says Ms Koeckler, isn’t a car. The Amarok ute is touted as Europe’s first ute entrant into the global market.

To be launched mid-2011, the Amarok will come to Australia as a two-wheel or all-wheel drive, and with an optional off-road pack with lowrange gearing and underbody protection.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working forĀ GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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