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VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI FROM $32,890

Hot hatches are growing up. Not only are they getting bigger, they’re becoming more refined. The 2020 VW Polo GTI is as big as a 10-year-old Golf and shares much of the latest tech with its bigger brother.

VW has installed the decadeold 2.0-litre turbopetrol from previous Golf GTI models, at a time when rivals are switching to smaller engines. The numbers — 147kW of

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