{"id":2342,"date":"2008-06-26T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2011-04-15T23:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:18:41","slug":"volkswagen-to-launch-polo-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/volkswagen-to-launch-polo-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen to launch Polo in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has finally put off all the speculations, Volkswagen will launch two cars &#8211; a hatchback and a sedan bases on its Polo platform in India. The polo based hatchback and sedan will hit the market in 2010.   &#8220;The VW brand is currently developing two cars based on the compact car &#8216;Polo&#8217; platform, which could be rolled out from our Chakan facility by 2010. One will be a hatchback and the other will be a small sedan,&#8221;  Volkswagen Group brand communications head Kurt Rippholz said. Volkswagen has also confirmed that this new model will be called the Polo in India. As Volkswagen eyes 10% market share in next 5-6 year, it wants to compete with other manufacturers too. To price the Polo competitively the company is aggressively pushing for higher localization.  &#8220;The car on the Polo platform will have about 50 per cent localisation to start with and eventually go up to 70-80 per cent,&#8221; Rippholz added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has finally put off all the speculations, Volkswagen will launch two cars &#8211; a hatchback and a sedan bases on its Polo platform in India. The polo based hatchback and sedan will hit the market in 2010. &#8220;The VW brand is currently developing two cars based on the compact car &#8216;Polo&#8217; platform, which could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/volkswagen-to-launch-polo-in-india\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Volkswagen to launch Polo in India&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[586,1038,43,931,226,45,539,225,881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}