VW has just announced it is offering a new trim
level, named the R-Line, for the Up! city car. Available as an optional extra,
it starts from € 795 in Germany and adds several features that make the
Up! stand out from lesser variants.
The front and rear bumpers now have a sportier look,
there’s chrome trim for the fog lamp bezels, a silver-colored trim strip in the
grille, side sills finished in the same shade as the rest of the car, and a
blacked out roof and side mirror casings.
The Up! R-Line gets privacy rear windows, said to be
65 percent light-absorbing, 16-inch ‘Triangle’ multi-spoke wheels shod in
185/50 tires and fog lamps in the Move Up! and High Up! grades. Paying more
gets you 17-inch rims with 195/40 tires, which can be finished in black or
glossy black. The R-Line package is all about the exterior, which means that the
interior remains untouched.
The Up! is available in 10 grades, namely the base
model, Join, Beats, Special, Spice, e-Up!, e-Load, Eco and Cross, plus the Up!
GTI hot hatch. It’s the smallest member of the brand’s GTI family and starts from
€ 16,975 in its homeland. That’s is a little bit more than the base
Polo, but comes with sportier looks inside and out and a turbo’d 1.0-liter
engine rated at 115 PS.
