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Gas Discharge Lights (or HID's or Xenon's) are amazing. They are a £500-£1000 option on most luxury cars, but they come as standard on the GTi. They should last longer than the car, but if one did go, they are £100 each "bulb" from the dealer, or about £30 from eBay.de. They really are amazing, the light output is VERY white, so you can see further and it is less tiring driving at night.
I get between 250-280 miles from a tank of Shell Optimax.
I have had as much as 320 miles on a lazy motorway journey.
Cruising at 70 is fine, however if you decide to be a "law breaker" and cruise above 80mph, things get a little noisy as in 5th above 80mph the cam timing changes (VVT). It could really do with a 6th gear (aka Lupo GTi gearbox).
If you get a very late Polo GTi, you will get the version that had engine bits changed to meet stiffer emissions laws, so it might not be as quick, however you will pay less road tax.
The VERY early ones apparently suffered from a flat spot in the rev range. Mine is a July 2000 model and I haven't noticed this.
With some simple modifications (ie suspension) the Polo GTi is a really fantastic little car that will out handle and out perform a lot of other cars on the road.
Last edited by Josh_PoloGTi on Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
hi
I seem to get 300+ miles from a tankfull, maybe cos i dont thrash it everywhere, i fill it up when it goes into the red usually. i'd say about 34mpg (ish!)
mine was registered march 2000 and has no flatspots (nearly time for its birthday-thats my excuse for getting new springs )
xenons are cool, but i just hope I dont get one stone chipped!
