Talk:Volkswagen Polo Mk2

There could probably do with some kind of consistency over the different models--there's 'station wagon' in use for the coupé over the picture besides the rest. The German terms were Steilheck and Coupé, and as far as I'm aware they were translated pretty uniformly to Hatchback and Coupé in English.

Some kind of note about the models' continuing popularity might be prudent also. TNC 00:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - I'm an inch away from altering it myself unless someone wants to argue against it. The article page is the first time I have ever seen the hatch version referred to as a "Wagon". It was either Hatchback or indeed Squareback (a more natural sounding english equivalent to the german "steepback" (steilheck)) in reference to it's unusual near-vertical (and really rather useful :) third door. There have, after all, been "actual" Wagon bodies put on the Polo floorpan down the years, including one sold alongside the still-quite-steep Mk3 hatch. Pretty sure I saw someone make a custom one using a couple of pre-facelift Mk2s, too - a saloon floorpan/lower body with a donor hatch rear/upper end welded on, not a million miles away from the concept behind the mk3 one... The steilheck isn't a particularly long car, or even possessed of a super large boot, unless you fold the rear seats. It just has a taller than usual metal part to the tailgate, and a steeper than normal glass pane above it (vs the coupe which is the opposite, when the two are compared to most of their in-betweeny hatchback contemporaries)... 193.63.174.211 (talk) 13:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Oko-Polo?

Is there any mileage in trying to add a small section or even a paragraph/sentence about the experimental "Oko Polo" (eco-) that VW made a few prototypes of in the early 80s, on the Mk2 platform? One of the earliest forced-charge small diesels - 2 cylinder, 850ish cc, 40ish hp, and, bizarrely, supercharged - which proved to be rather too far ahead of it's time, expensive to make and unlikely to find a ready market... bit of a shame. There's only a little bit of information around concerning it, but I have at least seen scans of contemporary magazine articles about it before. Be nice to have it as at least a small footnote in this here historical record, as some of it's DNA still lives on in their modern products (including, particularly, the XL1...). 193.63.174.211 (talk) 13:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)