Thinking of changing my wife's car - we need a small car for parking in really tight spaces - even on the UP parking sensors would be good
the 89bhp UP looks good
- not the GTi as those rubber bands for tyres look just ridiculous and must affect the ride quality
anyone drive one - what are they like - parking spaces are at a premium in the street where we live - and I don't fancy the Fiat
Not an UP, but we bought my son a Skoda Citigo SE-L and its great.
75bhp, Sat Nav, media player, Reversing Senors, AC, electric Windows/mirrors, cruise control, alloys, etc.
i brimed it when we bought it (early April), drove from Farnborough to Salisbury, given my son multiple lessons in preparation for his test and we still have nearly half a tank left.
Best of all zero tax
Very very impressive bit of kit.
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Good city car - nippy too - seems “slim” - my mates girlfriend has one - pretty cool really as basic yet still quality
Interested in this as well as I've been thinking about getting one for my mother although she would want the automatic. The problem being the reviews of the auto box version aren't good saying it's jerky in operation. Has anyone driven one? It's actually difficult to find one to test drive and the salesmen even try and steer away from it. Also is there likely to be a new UP? Since the current one has been around for some time now. Apologies to the OP for the slight thread hijack.
Also got the Citigo for the lad as his first car. Exceptionally roomy, comfortable and ridiculously easy to drive; so it's difficult to justify *needing* anything else. I can easily get 70mpg from it, the lad can get 35...
His is the 60 bhp version. It's exactly the same as the 75bhp version except for the map - the more powerful version only benefiting above about 5000rpm so makes no difference in most daily driving, especially around town.
Only shortcomings I'd highlight are the poor radio on the early ones and as mentioned above, the woeful auto box. The manual is super slick though and the clutch nice and light.
I think they are absolutely brilliant little cars.
Unfortunately they are likely to be phased out and there is no replacement for the Up!/Mii/Citigo as VAG aren't making money on them. I *think* the e-Up! will remain but I'm not particularly impressed with that :-(
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Originally Posted by mactrack
My step mum has the auto, I'd read the reviews slating it and saying it was slow. In reality its fine, perhaps not the smoothest change in the world and not the fastest but perfectly adequate. She did have updated software on the gearbox this year (its a 13 plate) which cost a few hundred, I couldn't work out what it actually did as she was a bit vague but thats literally al she has spent on it bar servicing.
My misses had a test drive in the manual skoda citigo, really impressive we'd have bought it but despite being a demo it was covered in dings, god knows what they'd done with it.
GTI here...changed the tyres not long after I got the car and it’s the best mod I’ve done. Peanuts to run, rare and more fun Han my old Golf R. Love it.
It's a strange car in some respects. The auto box and I didn't get along at all well, I'd use the manual gear selection in preference whenever driving on hills/country lanes as most of the time the auto wouldn't choose what I considered to be the correct gear. Instead of calling it 'jerky' I'd say under a light throttle in auto it was fine and smooth, but under medium to spirited acceleration there would be quite a lag between changing up through the gears.
OTOH, it was a car that somehow would catch me out on motorways insofar as I would be doing what felt like 70ish but was actually going much faster, so much so I thought the speedo was inaccurate until I double-checked on the GPS. Fuel economy averaged out at 55 mpg and there was little loss on resale after 24 months ownership ('16 model).
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I recently bought a brand new Seat Mii which is the same car. I also used to have a citigo about five years ago. Cracking little car, so nice to drive and actually very roomy inside. More room inside the Mii than my Mini Cooper S R56
I like the Mii as only seen a few about and a bit rarer, got a cracking deal on it as it is being phased out.
Had a groove up from new for 5 years. Ive only put fuel in it, no other costs. Great little car. Superb for in town and parking.
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I did look into buying one. One thing that did put me off was the engine uses a cam belt rather than chain, and the interval for this expensive (in relation to the car’s price) belt change was low.
The mother in law has an UP GTI and loves it. I took it out for a drive and was very impressed. It's got a decent sized cabin and plenty of headroom (I'm 6'5" tall). Super easy to drive around town with great steering and a light clutch. The ride wasn't bad considering the tyres. Bear in mind the boot is about as close to useless as you could imagine. There's more boot space in an MX5.
In all a good run around as long as you don't need to carry much with you. I expect they're cheap to run. Probably not at it's best on the motorway, but I'm sure it would be fine.
Offering something else, have you considered an aygo? My mum needed a new car and after checking out the Up, 500 etc we decided on the Aygo. It’s great for what it does and the car even has a reverse camera fitted at standard on this trim level.
Toyota did 0% interest deals at the start of the year, i’d recommend checking one out atleast
I bought a new UP last august, well not new but pre-registred with 20 miles on the clock. I went in to buy a GTi but the long 9 month waiting list put the kiboysh on that.
They had a pre-reg in stock with absolutely every extra fitted, aircon, bluetooth, cruise, parking sensors, heated seats, panoramic roof, alloy sports wheels etc etc, they took my Volvo in p/x and did me a great deal.
Wished i'd bought a small car a long time ago. Park almost anywhere in central London without any problems, handles like a Go kart and so much fun to drive... did a 400 mile day round trip last October using the UP instead of my Range Rover just to see what it's like on long journeys, wasn't a problem at all.
Mine is a manual, bluemotion stop/start model but very very nippy around town.
Waited 8 months for mine.
Now: the stock is all to be sold. when it's gone, it's gone: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/cars/volkswagen/up/up-gti
There is a boot and a sub boot below it.
They are quite big, you can put a big holdall or cabin bag in the sub boot, and 3 or 4 shopping bags in the bit above, maybe you didn't see the second bit?
but, granted, it's a city micro car, so Audi estate it ain't :)
so VW have stopped making the UP GTi?
have they stopped making the UP altogether, or are they continuing with the smaller engined cars?
Has the model been updated, I notice that even on new unregistered hi spec cars there are two difference steering wheels, one with audio etc., controls and one without out
Have Skoda and Seat also stopped making their version of the car?
There are still plenty of new cars advertised and quite a few "demo" low mileage models around?
Last edited by BillN; 18th May 2019 at 12:00.
Different steering wheels depend on the trim level. Ending the Up here would be big news on automotive websites since it’s the most popular car sold here! No chance of killing this quietly.
GTI has been troublesome from the beginning: emission laws are not (were not) in sync with the car’s engine.
Edit: on vw.nl, the GTI is advertised as a seperate model. No configurator for that one. Just one trim level etc
Last edited by thieuster; 18th May 2019 at 12:20.
The VW factory in Bratislava has stopped making the GTI. The VW UK website no longer lists it. There is Take Up, Move Up and Up Beats only as new. Obviously there is stock in the supply chain to be sold. And all the GTi demonstrators, which are no longer relevant any more.
I've heard that the Gen 2 Up from 2020 onwards will be electric only!
All the up GTIs had multifunction steering wheel buttons.
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