Volkswagen Pointer

The Volkswagen Pointer was a small family car sold by Autolatina in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from 1994 to 1996, offered as a five-door hatchback. Its two-door sedan sister, the Volkswagen Logus, was sold from 1993. Both grew out of Autolatina, the joint venture between Volkswagen and Ford, and were developed on the Ford Escort Mk V platform, so although the sheet metal differed from the Escort, the styling cues still read as Ford. The Pointer was presented in October 1993 in four versions, the CLI 1.8, GLI 1.8, GLI 2.0 and GTI 2.0. The last one built, a GTI hatchback, went to the Volkswagen factory museum in Wolfsburg. Production ended in 1996 as the partnership fell apart, but the Pointer name lived on for the Brazilian Gol in Mexico, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt.