http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14373

Not sure if this has been revealed here, but Motor Magazine runs a comprehensive test every year looking for its best "Bang for your Buck" car under $100k. Excuse the link to a Toyota 86 fan-site, but they have scans of the actual magazine article. No spoilers from me, but the Fabia RS is featured in the line-up.

How big is the price diffrence over there between the polo an fabia?

I dont think youd get more "bang for your buck" with the polo gti over the vrs considering the diffrence is about 5k and imo it isnt 5k better

The difference is only $1k - on paper. In the real world, because of the relative scarcity of the Polo (deliberate policy or supply issues, I'm not sure), I was able to get the Fabia for about $5k cheaper on-road (after government taxes etc). Which made its bang far better for my buck. Especially when the VW dealers won't budge on price, nor do they tend to have a car actually in stock.

One dealer told me the Polo he was advertising as available wasn't actually in stock but still on the boat "from Germany". Which made me laugh, as I'm fairly sure the GTI is made in Spain. People here tend to believe all VW's are German made, and the dealers like to perpetuate the myth (German quality and all that). In reality, most of our Golfs and Polos come from South Africa.

There's clearly some competitive headline pricing on VWs in Oz then if there's only $1,000AU difference. I just specced a polo gti on the uk configurator thingy to match my vrs and there was a near £8,000 difference and I couldn't even find parking sensors as an option on the polo.

Vw charge £45 for a switch to turn off the passenger airbag and another £45 for the luggage divider for example. How about £495 for metallic and £205 for steering wheel with paddles and Multi function and a base price of £19,950!!

Not knocking the polo. Great looking car but at over £22,000 with not overly extravagant options? I'll stick with my £14k Skoda ta.

That's VW all over. Good base rate, expensive options. I think in this case the German overlords might have a bit of influence on what Skoda Oz does for pricing - don't want to affect VW sales numbers now, do we?

Second place is a great result for the Fabia RS in this line up of 18 performance cars. Of course the 1,500 odd that have purchased this car in the UK secretly know that for bang for buck we couldn't have done better, particularly with Skoda's 'VAT free' deal. How ironic that a photo of a container of oil is show next to pictures of the car .

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