I Want a MK2 Caddy. 

"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo) 12/09/2015 at 13:46 • Filed to: None

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It’s a MK3 Polo, with a van body on the back. I love it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 13:49

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I suspect by “Polp” you meant “Polo” and not “Polyp”, but now that you mention it, it is kind of a lumpy mass.

Leon711 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 13:51

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TIL it’s based on the SEAT Ibiza.

Source I owned a polo and a friend had the ibiza.

davedave1111 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 13:53

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FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 13:54

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And I want a Chevy Astro van.

Klaus Schmoll > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 13:57

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VW built a MK3 prototype, but it never got any further.

Wacko > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 14:03

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I always found those odd looking, just like the pope mobiles.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > davedave1111 12/09/2015 at 14:08

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Odd that I’d never noticed the thin similarity between the Golf Mk I and the Type 181, not in the least. Put a tire on the hood, though, and suddenly...

Autohaus Derp > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/09/2015 at 14:10

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No, he meant Olop!

AndyG_UK > Leon711 12/09/2015 at 14:11

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Yeah it’s really a MK 2 Seat Ibiza van (Inca), that VW stuck their badges on for the caddy, my uncle used to have the Seat version as a work van. VW also stuck their badge on the Cordoba (Ibiza saloon) and called it the Polo saloon.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Autohaus Derp 12/09/2015 at 14:14

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If it were “poolp”, I’d have taken it for a dimunitive of Blipdoolpoolp, the kuo-toan goddess from D&D.

Blibdoolpoolp usually takes the form of a 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) nude human female, with a lobster’s head and claws in place of humanoid parts. At close range, her gaze causes insanity.

D&D is weird, man.

Autohaus Derp > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/09/2015 at 14:19

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Serial polo owner here - had a 6n, 2x 6n2s and a 9n3

While we’re on the subject of small VWs not sold in the US, here’s my old 9n3 polo, the last nice car I owned in the UK before emigrating stateside.

1.9TDI BLT, 6 speed manual, all the toys (climate control etc) - underrated at 130bhp from factory and many torques, I had it remapped to 167bhp and 320lbft. Only around 250 facelifted cars were sold with that engine in the UK in its 3 year production run.

Made for one hell of a quick car and many tortured tyres. Only now that I cant have access to such awesome torquey engines in small cars do I really appreciate how bonkers that little thing was. I did a bunch of other stuff to it including TT brakes and eibach suspension, but I will never forget how it would just shoot forwards in any gear!

Leon711 > AndyG_UK 12/09/2015 at 14:19

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It was well documented on Polo forums that the seat derived saloon was of inferior quality. I noticed that same between my polo and the ibiza my friend had, his was literally the worst car in terms of build quality. Odd because they were produce in the same factory.

AndyG_UK > Leon711 12/09/2015 at 14:24

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I can believe that, my partner had a facelift version of the Ibiza that he bought new, looked good, was well equipped with a nice looking interior (was the Sport model) but yeah the build quality was lacking, was a fun chuckable car though!

Leon711 > AndyG_UK 12/09/2015 at 14:30

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It was his first car a 1.4 8v and I had my Polo (facelift) 1.4 16v and we had so much fun in them, they were very prone to lift off oversteer, I used to do it all the time until this...

AndyG_UK > Leon711 12/09/2015 at 15:17

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Ours was the 1.6, yes it was prone to bit of lift off but it handled very flat around the corners, was very fond of it.

anon-sxmcyecofnu1eocpqsk9iq > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/10/2015 at 01:29

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Damn you now I want one too.

Svend > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/13/2015 at 02:29

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It’s one thing to have German style plates but at least keep them legal with legal British font and spacing.