THE CICADA IS THE ANT
The Cicada, HAVING sung all summer, WAS Greatly Lacking When The North Wind cam. For Inspiration From The famous fable by Jean de la Fontaine Say That We Could The Volkswagen Polo Transformed Into With advertising prior year, cicada Became In His thunderous version G40 ” Indeed, Leaving the coat drudge serious and not funny for a penny Of The Polo, The Small G40 has it, a goal in life is give-and take pleasure. If Polo Is an ant, The G40 Is A red one. An itchy, and strong! Marketed in 1989 as a limited edition Polo II, the “G40″ for Good Will Conquer The hearts of fans of VW in 1991 …
The History of Polo Begins in 1974.
And yes, it IS a bit … With The Introduction Of The Audi 50, Volkswagen Invented a new model to line sharing icts Many features With The small Audi. Called Polo, VW mini landed in 1976 . In October 1981, The Polo (Gold Polo Mk2) Continuous The success of this model That Concentrates The expertise of Volkswagen’s small for reliable and Economical. By extension of goodwill, The Idea of a Polo Cup Aimed Mainly at young people Gives Rise to the Polo GT Coupe With A Small 1L2 Pushed to 75 hp. In 1983 VW Polo icts celebrates one million sold and The Idea of a version far less wise Than The GT is in. The process of germination. Limited by space In The engine compartment, engineers opt for The Path of a small displacement turbocharged. And INSTEAD of a turbo, Then very popular solution In The class of small sport adapté year old VW obvious scroll compressor! With The Turn Of 40mm Wide, The compressor “G” (letter Representing The Shape The Turn of) Gives Rise to the Polo GT G40 cutting Exhibited At The Frankfurt Motor Show in 1985. What Followed Was a world record in 1300cc class to Demonstrate The Potential Of The Craft and Its promotion. In November 1985, and The Ant travels 5000 km in 24 hours at average speed of year 208 km / h. Then Used in IS Mechanics Competition in the Polo Cup and It Was not Until The End of 1988 for a numbered limited edition of 500 copies, short Renamed G40, IS Marketed in France. icts Purpose unattractive price (89,500 francs) and low uptake Confined To The regret of potential buyers, The more frustrated thats the Press is very excited about this amazing machine. With patience, He Will Have to wait to review The 1991 G40, now Has catalog series. Goal Will Be Short Lived happiness Because in 1994 The Polo III Replaces the Existing Model.
DESIGN
Restyled back catalog (type IIF) and 10.000 FF Displayed less, at 79.900, the “red ant” in Giving value for money. Compared with references category “115 hp” That Are The Peugeot 205 GTI 1.6 gold Fiat Uno Turbo ie , The Case Seems quite good. Except G40 2 badges, front and rear, discretion required IS & the Polo Does not play alluring. Declined On The Basis of only Polo Cup, The G40 model differs, however, by a Specific spoiler Complete with a red edging to The front and rear, BBS alloy wheels and wheel arches Substantially expanded by black plastic side moldings elements and Inspired by big brother Golf GTI . je Germanic sobriety Gives a certain allure to this small city and We Can Say That it hides icts Game Against Rivals Such As The 205 Rallye Who donned The more Explicitly tracksuit. Inside, If There Were Not A bit more enveloping seats – Specific Covered in a tissue questionable purpose “Le Mans” with turquoise tiles … – One Might Even Begin to Question the gravement claims of German sports. Although Small and less habitable Than The Golf, VW Polo Appreciated sister like history for good ergonomics. However plastics are hard and all this looks Quite cheap. Note sport is Complete With A soft plastic steering wheel and With Three branches. .. a tachometer. Uh … Is That All? And yes, to trim the price, It Must Reduce Costs! In Fact, standard equipment IS ultra minimalist. In the trunk (without light) has carpeted floor mats Specific leaves Just Enough spare room for the recessed pulls. The doors closed to individual “The Key To The open windows and force of arms With A Good Old crank Which HAD Almost forgotten the happy life. So to say, events the cigarette lighter Was an option! What Replay Well-Known sketch Coluche. Aim Low considerations stuff, now the fun place …
ENGINE
The Polo G40 Incorporates The Technical Characteristics Of The Polo Cup. Namely, The 4-cylinder powered by a transverse position multiport electronic fuel injection controlled by a computer “digifas. The engine (code PY), if Still Quite Familiar With The 1272 cm3 Which Is The Basis for G40, IS Undergoing Profound exchange. The block-based steel Remains The Same But The alloy cylinder head, distribution, spark plugs, pistons, camshaft, valves, hydraulic lifters With, all motor accessories (radiator, starter, alternator, pipes intake and exhaust …) are specific. The exhaust system est aussi more impressive. Finally, The Lure For the more lively this unprecedented Supercharging System Composed By The scroll compressor coupled With An air / air. Derived from a patent never put into Practice , distinguished by this technique IS ITS LACK of turbo response time and Provides Even Then, All The Benefits of Downsizing. Indeed, The compressor driven by belts IS Taking Their crankshaft pulley By The Movement. It Is Always Malthus in action, from idle to fill The Engine With cold air and Increase torque. This IS Composed of Two compressor casings enclosing a spiral That Operates year by eccentric movement Forced to draw in the air to Restore the maximum pressure of 0.68 bar to The Engine. The Result is a power of 115 hp at 6,000 rpm and peak torque of 150 Nm available from 3600 to 4400 rpm. Not bad for a small 1300 cm3! The Specific output of 90 hp / L and above-the Specific torque of 117 Nm / L show a good performance, despite a 8.0:1 compression ratio to Reduced To Just Avoid knock problems. Small but mighty, The G40 and VW Reached The level of power and torque of a 1600 ace That Of The 205 while Retaining The Flexibility and spontaneity of The Same wears, sports Smaller Unlike was Such as gold Super 5 Turbo Uno. And this little devil insect Does not take turns to pray With Envy, howling like a beast to switch to 6,500 rpm! MoreOver, Consumption in normal driving are Quite reasonable, Especially When Compared to a 1.3L twin Such As The 205 carbs yet less Powerful rally. The autonomy of The Small 42L tank IS acceptable. Finally, the 5-speed manual transmission IS ensured by Specific diameter clutch. The gearbox IS Perfectly staged to own this model.
CHASSIS
Let’s start by talking about The lap and There, It Should Be Noted That The Ant scurries Like a rabbit. Poorly in motor assisted by historical ridiculous wheels 13 “in 175/60 and aerodynamic drag coefficient history of van (0.38), The Volkswagen Polo G40 yet allow himself “a 0 to 100 in 8″ and 5 kilometer standing start in 29 “8. The gains unpretentious Approach the Standard of the category, Including new stars of the Moment As The Renault Clio 16s . The frame and Its Specific settings are To The G40 model That Largely derived from the original holder of The Polo. Lacking front and was resting triangular frame of the 70s, The Polo G40 Does not display Accuracy The Same As The 205 GTI driving gold rally, although icts wheelbase has members that are serious reinforcements to clear the extra power. In the end, The Polo, very firm, do not spare your vertebrae At The Expense of efficiency: Lowered suspension by 30 mm and 20 mm behind the front struts reinforced, low profile tires, torsion bar cross Thicker Stronger Calibrated booms fully-kneecap. icts With small size, has taken The Small Volkswagen has great agility In The lack of Exemplary Behavior. It Provides more fun in the winding, coating Especially good is, in a straight line Where the front leaves a feeling of floating Disturbing . The brakes are good show With The ventilated front discs introduction of calipers With More Powerful While The ancient Retains rear drums. They Still Received The Largest diameter cylinder. The brake system uses a aussi compensator for a better balance front and rear axle Between. Given The low weight of the beast (830 kg full nude) They Are Rather doing well & the pleasure of sporty driving This Is really long to like little “GTI” pure and hard.
BUYING A VOLKSWAGEN POLO G40
Here we are at The Critical Point of the box. If You Were captivated by the Story Above, You May Be Disappointed When Addressing your Quest for the G40 lost. Because We must not forget thats the chip Willie Soon celebrate icts Majority, The Last Copies Already Have 14 Years of Service in the rods! Victim of a limited distribution, The Volkswagen Polo G40 has a lot of Strangely Attracted customers “mature” in its infancy. Generally well maintained In Their First Life, Then Often Polo G40 are fallen Into the hands of budding Preparers Who Saw a Way to Win Easily Boost historical horses, The General Disregard For the Overall Reliability of this little compressor Goldsmith. Wrongly Deemed unreliable, The G40 IS Mostly The fault of lax maintenance (1000 euros Renovating Every mile was 50.000 as in “low prices” May Indeed Be reluctant …) Various hacks gold tuning sauce. Anyway, tea connoisseur and collector in the Soul Will cherry-pick from a wide EACH model number of copies “not fresh”. thats the Note 1L3 Sometimes a VW IS Weakness Of The head gasket. The interior very “cheap” looking older, however, Fairly Well Except For Some Gambling Problems In The Front Seat. Browsing Through Some ads on the Internet weekends Unearthed the red ant Between 1000 and 3000 euros , With of course very different states and Often Many Miles On It and Not Always verifiable. Then everyone is Free to try Their luck in terms of STI Knowledge engineering, or budget, it aims to expand May Be Appropriate ITS research in Germany (With The Sami bail though) Where It has-been sold well more. Better yet, Switzerland Where There Often coaches are blameless, less mileage (in the Image of Our specimen shows That The Original 16.000 km!) And Not much more expensive. The Entering as a pivotal period “Between the hand & the collection, It Is Generally wiser to put some more money on the Table to offer a sound BASIS Rather Than Go Into Often a more expensive restaurant. Then Everything Depends on the purpose of purchase.
CONCLUSION
For all lovers of VW Polo GTI has never excited Replaced The Ant That Was The G40. The Abandonment Of The compressor G by Volkswagen regarded too expensive and too fragile, The Death Knell of this technology to atypical oh so innovative. At a Time When We Talk of downsizing as a panacea for The Gasoline engine, The Volkswagen Is A little interest for collectors Among icts and Its Historical aspect relative rarity. A future “classic” to buy Without Further ado …
