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Hello I have recently got a 2016 polo gti and when you put the plate in on a tax/mot checker online the model name comes up as a polo gti s-a, I have tried other gti’s I know and they don’t come up with the s-a so what does this mean and why’s it there I can see any differences in my car to any other as far as I’m aware thanks

Built in South Africa

The 11th character in the VIN code should also indicate where a specific car was built. Some 6r/6c Polos for the UK market were also built at VW’s Pamplona Spain factory (the 6c GTI I owned was). If the 11th character is ‘U’, the car was built at Uitenhage, South Africa, if it’s a ‘Y’ then it was built at Pamplona, Spain.

Will the problem not be that someone, probably the original selling garage/dealer, made a mess of filling in the reg paperwork?

On another issue, I imported a 2000 VW Passat 4Motion and a 2002 VW Polo 1.4 SE bother from Holland, my VW dealership just loved to write/type Import on the top of every worksheet - just to rub it in!

Is your car a DSG ? Could this mean “ semi automatic “ ?
Were the other cars you checked also dsg or manual cars

CarbonChaos wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:15 am Is your car a DSG ? Could this mean “ semi automatic “ ?
Were the other cars you checked also dsg or manual cars

I think you’re correct - I’ve just looked on the ‘how many left’ website and looked at the mk7 Golf GTi TCR which was built in Germany and was only available with a DSG transmission. It’s listed as ‘Golf GTI TCR S-A’.

So I’d hazard a guess that the OP’s car has DSG transmission, hence the ‘S-A’ designation on the tax / mot checker.