Volkswagen Polo GTI R5

The Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 is a rally car built by Volkswagen Motorsport on the Polo road car to R5 regulations, and the successor to the Polo R WRC. After four dominant years in the World Rally Championship, Volkswagen began work on a new Polo WRC for the 2017 rules in 2016, cancelled it in November 2016 when it announced its withdrawal, and then said in April 2017 that it would build a Polo GTI for the R5 class, to be used mostly by privateers in the World Rally Championship-2. It was developed with Škoda, which had its own R5 Fabia, and unveiled in December 2017 with a 1.6 litre engine of 272 brake horsepower. It made its competitive début at the 2018 Rally Catalunya with Petter Solberg and Eric Camilli, and fifteen cars were soon ordered by European and South American customers.