{"id":55495,"date":"2020-11-20T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=55495"},"modified":"2020-12-02T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:58:24","slug":"25-years-of-volkswagen-polo-harlekin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/25-years-of-volkswagen-polo-harlekin\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years of Volkswagen Polo Harlekin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Close your eyes and think of an extraordinary special car model. Even if your thoughts immediately went to a particularly colorful vehicle, we are probably talking about the 1995 Volkswagen Polo Harlekin. It is interesting to note that VW never planned this special edition model in the first place. Actually, all they wanted to do in 1994 was to launch the then new Polo III (6N) well on the market and to present its wide range of individualization ex works well. For this purpose, a clear color scheme for the modular principle had been found for the brochures. Green symbolized ‘paintwork’, blue stood for ‘engines & chassis’, yellow for ‘interior’ and red for ‘special equipment’. A group of trainees came up with the idea of mixing exactly these colors on the bodywork of a fleet of ten new Polos in 1994. Another ten followed in early to mid 1995. All of them were then used for advertising purposes (“Small can be so versatile”) and for the dealer launch parties of the new Polo, triggering something that nobody had foreseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many customers asked for colorful Polos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to any assumption, the advertising shots of the colorful Polo not only provided a better understanding of the possible equipment combinations. There were also a large number of customers who asked their local dealer or even directly at VW in Wolfsburg how they could buy such a colorful Polo. In the end, there were so many inquiries that VW’s marketing department sensed a sales market. The implementation was made easy and so the special edition Polo Harlekin made its debut at the IAA (Frankfurt Motor Show) 1995. Four cars were needed for each model. These were each produced in a single color in the paint colors ‘Chagallblau’, ‘Flashrot’, ‘Ginstergelb’ and ‘Pistazie’. After body assembly, they were removed from the production line and disassembled by hand in a former paint shop on the factory premises.<\/p>\n\n\n

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