Volkswagen Up!

[BLADERUNNER]

Especulación gráfica: Volkswagen Up! GTI
Volkswagen presenta un nuevo modelo, y al instante, hasta de debajo de las piedras aparecen chopsilustrando su hipotética versión GTI o R; esta es una de esas historias que se repiten siempre, y que al mismo tiempo nunca nos aburren. Sucedió con el Polo, con el Golf, recientemente con el nuevo Beetle, y ahora también con el Up!, que hace apenas unos días se quitó por fin la careta. El modelo definitivo lo podremos ver en el Salón de Frankfurt el día 13 de septiembre, pero Seljakboy, de PS-Garage.com no ha esperado ni a eso para imaginar su hermano deportivo, que en cierto modo debería tomar el testigo del grandioso (y no lo suficientemente recordado) Lupo GTI.

Lo cierto es que el bigote colorado y las llantas le sientan de maravilla, al igual que las taloneras y los escapes centrales. Donde tal vez podríamos discutir un poco es en el diseño de las ópticas LED, y sería más por hablar que por otra cosa. No creemos que Volkswagen acepte sugerencias externas, pero no protestaríamos si el diseño final se pareciera a estas imágenes.​

 

[Fahrenheit]

As famosas jantes que apareceram no Golf GTI!

E motor? Qualquer coisa tipo o Twingo RS?

 

[BLADERUNNER]

Ainda são especulações...
Aqui ficam as primeiras imagens do carro na rua.

 

[CletoZaca]

resulta melhor ao vivo do que em fotografias trabalhadas.

 

[Jarod]

"Forgive the pun" mas... "altamente!" []

A Volkswagen parece regressar às origens com este carro. Espero que não atrapalhem mas é o VW Polo... parece-me que não.

 

[Fahrenheit]

Tampões powa! []

Ao vivo é muito mais bonito que em "photoshop's"

 

[TILT]

Caixinha engraçada

Ao vivo fica muito melhor do que em fotos de estúdio.

 

[Icedevice]

Falo em apoios de braços "aftermarket".

Ena isso é interessante e não sabia que existia, onde se podem comprar?

 

[Fahrenheit]

Ena isso é interessante e não sabia que existia, onde se podem comprar?

Na loja de produtos automóveis mais próxima de si, Norauto, Feubert, E.leclerc L'Auto entre outros...

 

[crash]

We drive VW's Up city car
Rival for i10 and new Fiat Panda
From £8000, on sale January 2012


What is it?
You may remember the Volkswagen Up concept. It wowed the Frankfurt motor show almost four years ago and previewed the company's idea of a budget city car.

It was rear engined, rear-wheel drive and was set to have a seriously low £4000 price. Subsequent concepts also hinted at an MPV and electrically powered versions, too.

Scroll forward and we've just driven the final production car. Plenty has changed in the process, not least because it's now a far more conventional format. It's front engined and front-wheel-drive like all of its immediate rivals such as the Hyundai i10 and forthcoming new Fiat Panda. Starting at £8000 it's also now got a price tag to match them .

The new Up is an all-new car from the ground up though. It sits on a new platform and at first will be sold with two new three-cylinder petrol engines, one with 59bhp, the other 74bhp.

Both have a five-speed manual gearbox and an optional dual-clutch auto will be available soon after the car goes on sale in January 2012.

The Up will be one of the smallest city cars on the market. At 3.5 metres long, 1.6m wide and 1.5m high it closely mirrors the scale of the Fiat 500 yet promises superior interior space for four adults.

What's it like to drive?
We've driven the higher powered 74bhp car, with the five-speed manual 'box.

It's not especially fast and at times, not especially refined. Nonetheless, it's still pretty appealing, because it's got a supple ride that mops up most road imperfections and it's a small car that feels like a small car to drive: agile, accurate and effortless to pilot.

Plenty of this feel is down to compactness of course, but the light, yet direct steering plays a part, as does the snappy gearchange.

The new three-cylinder engine's interesting, too. Of course, it's not quite as smooth as a four-cylinder and you'll notice the small vibrations most at low revs, but it's free-revving nonetheless and perky enough if you're prepared to hang onto the revs to build up speed. It's capable of cruising well at motorway speeds too, even if it's not a particularly vigorous overtaking tool.

Downsides are that there's a mite too much wind noise creeping into the cabin at high speeds and rivals such as the Hyundai i10 feel sharper.

What's it like inside?
The Up's dash isn't complicated, and that's a good thing. All the controls major controls are sited high up and of the no-nonsense, chunky variety - as you'd expect from a VW.

It's not cheerless to look at either, especially with one of the lighter trim options. It isn't as well made as a Polo, though. There's far more evidence of cost-cutting with cheaper, shinier plastics and front seats that don't return to their original position when you slide them. There isn't even a cover for the vanity mirror.

That said, the overall quality is still a notch or two above the class norm.

The dials are clear and if you go for the top-spec model - or are prepared to pay extra for it - you get a removable touch-screen sat-nav and infotainment system that pops out of the top of the dash. In time you'll also be able to upgrade the Maps+ more system with downloadable apps.

All versions get comfort more or less right. All four seats are flat and firm but well contoured. It's possible to get a good driving position too, although the pedals in our left-hand-drive test car were a little offset to the right, so we'd hope that's sorted when the wheel swaps sides.

Rear passengers don't get treated any worse than in any city car. The front seat slides and tilts forward enough for most of us to be able to clamber in. While kneeroom isn't any more impressive than rivals' there's adequate headroom and good visibility if you're relegated to the rear.

The boot is one of the biggest in the class though and with the rear seats flipped forward it can take more luggage than some cars from the class above.

Should I buy one?
The Up is now the plushest, best looking, spacious and probably most chic city car in the market, but this needs to be balanced against value.

Even with a predicted £8000 price, it won't be the best value of the breed and the more powerful version that comes with some extra kit will probably be uncomfortably close to five figures when it goes on sale in January.

The upshot then is that VW has now re-entered the city car market with one of the leading models. We reckon the Up is going to give the Koreans a tough time and if it's sensibly priced it has the talents to be the best one of all.

in What Car?

 

[Frecciarossa23]

Bem melhor do q o design "arrojado" de polos, golfs e companhia...

 

[Andre]

Sinceramente, vejo a VW a cometer alguns erros no Up como fez no Lupo.

Veja-se um interior tão espartano que face ao diferencial de preço que não deverá ser nada por aí além face ao Polo...é overprice.

Tudo isto pode parecer pouca coisa face ao efeito novidade e o aspecto/ar cool do modelo.

Mas o que fica é um interior de latinha com muita chapa (se se criticou tanto os trigémeos C1/107/Aygo é bom usar o mesmo critério agora), falhas de elementos já banais como a ventilação central, tudo criando um abismo de diferenças face ao Polo.

Mais, face a interiores com já 5 anos como o do Twingo II, não podemos deixar de ficar surpreendidos como Up comparativamente parece o carro de brincar, a tal latinha de segmento A.

Depois outro aspecto que replicaram do Lupo foi uma secção traseira diminuta (vê-se claramente numa vista lateral) que resultará não só numa bagageira de brincar e um espaço traseiro reduzido, novamente trigémeos like.

O que me leva a concluir que a VW se esforçou muito pouco neste Up, limitando-se a pegar na fórmula Lupo e adicionar-lhe o ar funky que conhecemos na categoria com os trigémeos, particularmente algo em torno de um conceito que "espartano = cool".

Talvez este resultado surja face às cambalhotas técnicas que o projecto teve e que levaram a que restasse pouco tempo para pensar em algo verdadeiramente mais pensado.

Tudo isto vai parecer "nada" durante o efeito novidade e até pode ser completamente anulado se a VW fizer uns preços porreiros.

Contudo este Up está longe de me ter deslumbrado como produto. Falta trabalho de campo, falta aquele ingrediente que só os italianos e franceses conseguiram dar a este segmento que é, essencialmente, um passo em frente, um novo patamar, uma nova maneira de fazer as coisas.

Este Up é apenas um simpático player. Nada mais.

Esperava muito mais.

 

[BLADERUNNER]

Algumas imagens elucidativas das dimensões/polivalência do carro.

 

[Fahrenheit]

Afinal sempre saiu sem a ventilação no meio, e sem conta-rotações...

Tinha grandes expectativas deste carro!

 

[catalao]

A ventilação central está atrás do "infotainment".
Num carro daquelas dimensões, refresca o interior sem problemas.

Ele tem conta-rotações, provavelmente. Se estão ali 3 manómetros, e se muitos carros actuais de segmento B não têm manómetro de temperatura, adivinha qual o manómetro em falta no "Up".

Quanto a lugares vai ser 2+2 ou 2+3? É que como o banco traseiro rebate a 1/3-2/3, suspeito que sejam 5.

 

[JRodrigues]

O Conta-rotações é o da esquerda.

 

[JRodrigues]

Sinceramente, vejo a VW a cometer alguns erros no Up como fez no Lupo.

Veja-se um interior tão espartano que face ao diferencial de preço que não deverá ser nada por aí além face ao Polo...é overprice.

Tudo isto pode parecer pouca coisa face ao efeito novidade e o aspecto/ar cool do modelo.

Mas o que fica é um interior de latinha com muita chapa (se se criticou tanto os trigémeos C1/107/Aygo é bom usar o mesmo critério agora), falhas de elementos já banais como a ventilação central, tudo criando um abismo de diferenças face ao Polo.

Mais, face a interiores com já 5 anos como o do Twingo II, não podemos deixar de ficar surpreendidos como Up comparativamente parece o carro de brincar, a tal latinha de segmento A.

Depois outro aspecto que replicaram do Lupo foi uma secção traseira diminuta (vê-se claramente numa vista lateral) que resultará não só numa bagageira de brincar e um espaço traseiro reduzido, novamente trigémeos like.

O que me leva a concluir que a VW se esforçou muito pouco neste Up, limitando-se a pegar na fórmula Lupo e adicionar-lhe o ar funky que conhecemos na categoria com os trigémeos, particularmente algo em torno de um conceito que "espartano = cool".

Talvez este resultado surja face às cambalhotas técnicas que o projecto teve e que levaram a que restasse pouco tempo para pensar em algo verdadeiramente mais pensado.

Tudo isto vai parecer "nada" durante o efeito novidade e até pode ser completamente anulado se a VW fizer uns preços porreiros.

Contudo este Up está longe de me ter deslumbrado como produto. Falta trabalho de campo, falta aquele ingrediente que só os italianos e franceses conseguiram dar a este segmento que é, essencialmente, um passo em frente, um novo patamar, uma nova maneira de fazer as coisas.

Este Up é apenas um simpático player. Nada mais.

Esperava muito mais.

oi??

We drive VW's Up city car
Rival for i10 and new Fiat Panda
From £8000, on sale January 2012

It's not cheerless to look at either, especially with one of the lighter trim options.

That said, the overall quality is still a notch or two above the class norm.

Rear passengers don't get treated any worse than in any city car. The front seat slides and tilts forward enough for most of us to be able to clamber in. While kneeroom isn't any more impressive than rivals' there's adequate headroom and good visibility if you're relegated to the rear.

The boot is one of the biggest in the class though and with the rear seats flipped forward it can take more luggage than some cars from the class above.

The Up is now the plushest, best looking, spacious and probably most chic city car in the market, but this needs to be balanced against value.

 

[xeLa]

Volkswagen Up 1.0 review

Volkswagen Up 1.0 review

What is it?

The smallest and newest VW hatchback going, the long-awaited Up pitches Volkswagen into the city car arena at last, with its minuscule 3540mm of length, its normally aspirated 1.0 litre, three-cylinder, all-alloy, 12-valve, petrol-only engines (diesels will come later) and its projected starting price – when sales start in UK early next year between £8000 and about £12,000.

The car started life as a concept in 2007 with an entirely different mechanical layout, a tiny engine mounted under the rear seat driving the rear wheels, but VW’s technical bosses deemed it too expensive to have a layout so completely different from the rest of its predominantly transverse front-drive cars, and opted for the tried and trusted layout.

There are two engine outputs of the same 1.0 litre petrol triple on offer, a super-frugal stop-start Blue Motion edition with 59bhp delivering 67.1mpg and a 74bhp option delivering 65.5mpg, which we were able to drive. Both versions emit less than 100g/km. There will also soon be a 69bhp model that runs on compressed natural gas (unlikely to be sold in Britain) and VW has already announced a battery-electric version for 2013. There will eventually be diesels, but they don’t have top priority because of their cost and weight. The base petrol version is commendably light at 929kg, ready to go.

What’s it like?

VW won’t thank us for saying this, but Up immediately puts you in mind of the original Renault Twingo – simple, cheeky snub-nosed three-door styling (though a five-door is coming), lots of cabin space for its length and a general aura of rule-breaking space efficiency. This might now be a conventional transverse front-drive model but VW has chased tiny details in packaging the car’s mechanical parts and the result us remarkable interior space, especially in the rear and the boot. The Up is similar in length to a Fiat 500 but far, far roomier. Given its inevitably boxy dimensions, the styling is especially successful, mixing the concept's neat original style with the inevitable VW family look visible in every Polo.

On the road, the Twingo analogy continues. This car’s small size gives it agility, and its steering is notably light and direct, but otherwise it aims mostly for practicality and comfort. The relatively small (14, 15 or optional 16-inch) wheels are easy to package. The ride is firm, but the engine is refined and buzz-free.

The 74bhp model isn’t quick, but its decent potential (0-62mph in 13.2 seconds) is easily deployed and in the UK it certainly won’t feel restricted to city driving. Give the car it’s head on an autobahn and you’ll see a three-figure top speed. The five-speed manual gearbox is light and simple to use, the brakes are strong (you can pay just £180 and get an automatic urban braking system that works at speeds below 20mph). Handling is neutral tending to understeer as cornering speed rises, with the low ride rates allowing a bit more body roll than is normal for VWs.

Inside, there’s an appealing, modern brightness about the decor which puts bigger, pricier VWs in the shade. Key feature is a plug-in info pod that not only provides direction finding functions but bonds with your phone and/or music device to group all these capabilities easily together and provide trip information, too.

Should I buy one?

It’s a tough decision, one of the toughest in any class regardless of price. It has powerful, cheeky appeal but to choose the new VW Up you’ve got to look past the Mini, Fiat 500 and a myriad of excellent, slightly bigger, similarly priced superminis like the Fiesta and Polo which, while less exclusive, possibly offer more performance – and car – for your money.

On the other hand, the Up is arguably the most modern baby car going, and one of the most technically interesting. Wisest course might be to avoid any final commitment until we find out exactly how it copes in the UK’s special conditions, in four or five months’ time.

in Autocar

 

[catalao]

Ao olhar para os comandos da porta do condutor....como é que o condutor controla o vidro do passageiro?
Não venham mas é com a treta do "por x euros querias marisco?", porque se era pra cortar, punham os comandos dos vidros ao centro e acabava-se a conversa.

 

[SPV]

Ao olhar para os comandos da porta do condutor....como é que o condutor controla o vidro do passageiro?
Não venham mas é com a treta do "por x euros querias marisco?", porque se era pra cortar, punham os comandos dos vidros ao centro e acabava-se a conversa.

Esticas-te ... e controlas na outra porta... Como a concorrência.