So we're back again with the Polo and honestly I'm not even sorry because there is nothing like the Polo in the Indian market It's so versatile, it's so nice to drive and it's so tuned or friendly and yes this badge over here might be very familiar But weirdly this is a car that we have never featured on the channel This is a Volkswagen Polo GT TDI 1.6 a very rare car and it was sold in India for a very short amount of time So today I'm going to tell you why this is one of the best tuner cars that you can buy in a budget So this is what all of the conundrum is about It's a 1.6 liter turbocharged diesel engine only the hood And yeah the engine itself is not really that special You could get it in the rap it you could get it in the vento and it was a pretty standard engine for both of those things But it was a very rare engine to find in the Polo because it was only offered between 2013 and 2015 And after that that engine was replaced with a 1.5 TDI So the amount of GT TDI is with a 1.6 ZFN sold is very less If I know the proper number it'll be over here somewhere So this engine basically produces 103 BHP and 250 Newton meters of torque Which is quite a lot for a car which is so small and so compact More importantly the GT TDI is very famous for being a good tuner car Regardless it being a 1.6 or a 1.5 but you should definitely go for the 1.6 because Of course you have 0.1 liters of more displacement The top end is a little bit better and once you slap on a CR 140 turbo onto this thing This makes 160 horsepower and almost 350 Newton meters of torque Do you want to own a cool car like this Polo GT TDI? Well head over to TDI classifies your one stop shop for India's favorite performance cars We have the best of the best examples of tuned, modified and even stock cars available on our website Everything from a stage 2 score a lot to unicorns like the Volvo S80 V8 To even a Lamborghini Hurakan Follow TDI classifies on Instagram to get the latest updates on our inventory And also to get updates on our unlisted section of cars Which other cars that cannot be listed on the website due to privacy reasons Plus we will list your car on our website for only 500 rupees for 3 months So head on over to TDI classifies So now let's just quickly dive into the looks of this car It's nothing new you've seen it a million times on our channel This is the first gen Polo that has come into India That's why it has no facelift nothing This is the first gen bumper that you get onto the car Since it's the GT way and you get the GT badging You get 15 inch alloy wheels You get a little spoiler at the back And yeah it's pretty much a very normal looking car But this car reminds me a lot of my old GT TSI I mean the color, the blacked out roof, the blacked out wheels It's a very reminiscent of my older car And there's nothing wrong in the looks of the Polo I mean it looks very nice But if you want to go ham you can definitely do that You can get all sorts of bumpers, wheels, spoilers, hoods, steering wheels Anything that you want it's available for the Polo So even if it looks like this right now You can completely change the look of it to your own liking So the Polo GT TDI is definitely one of the rarest Polos around in India And more importantly it is one of the fastest stock Polos that you can buy in India I mean this thing with its 1.6 liter TDI Relentless amounts of torque is just addictive to drive Literally any gear, any RPM it doesn't matter This thing can just pick up and move That's how much torque this engine produces And especially in a chassis which is so small, compact and light You can definitely feel all of that torque pushing you to the back of your seat The GT TDI 1.6 makes 103 horsepower and 250 Nm of torque And that is not all The GT TDI 1.6 is one of the most tune or friendly VAG diesel engines And you can definitely get in under a budget of let's say 5 lakh rupees Now a lot of people think that the 1.2 TSI GT is like a proper little hot hatch Well not really in comparison to this GT TDI That thing has nowhere near as fast or as torquey as this motor The 1.2 TSI first of all has a ton of problems with it First of all it's a single overhead cam engine So it does not have a lot of torque and grunt Then the DQ 200 transmission is a big problem Replacing that thing with the new clutch, flywheel, all of that If something goes wrong with the DSG It's like one lakh, one and a half lakh rupees And then the engine itself is not really that tolerant to all of these mods Stage 2 is a sweet spot for that engine And in stage 2 format well the GT TSI makes probably a 130 BHP Whereas this literally any sort of tuning stage will definitely produce at least 15 to 20 BHP more than a 1.2 TSI And more importantly it does not come with a 7-speed DQ 200 DSG It comes with a proper 5-speed manual As enthusiastic has back should And that is why the GT TDI is definitely one of the best Entusiast Polos you can buy around The 5-speed manual in this car is a decent gearbox It's not the most intuitive gearbox around It does have that rubbery feeling that most Volkswagen manual gearboxes have And the steering again it's a Volkswagen So it's pretty numb, it's not telling you what it's doing But at least it's direct and you can understand where you're pointing the car And once you start pulling And what's more impressive is that it's a diesel car So even if you're doing all of this enthusiastic spirited driving This thing will still give you the few economy numbers that you want I mean easily on the highway this will give you 16, 17 kilometers to the liter that too with some sort of aggressive driving But if you're actually trying to hyper mile this car I'm pretty sure you can go into like the mid-20s in terms of kilometers to the liter for this car And that is quite impressive So now many people ask us what is the criteria for a good tuner car Well the most basic thing that you should have is of course a turbocharger Because then remap and all of that stuff is really effective Because in an NA car you don't have that many variables to play with Whereas in a car like this you have tons of variables And having a turbocharger make sure that you can get a lot of power Out of just a basic stage one tune So let me just run you all of the different possibilities With the 1.6 GT-Di So this thing like I said makes 105 bhp stock 250 Nm stock Do a stage one tune which costs about anywhere between 18 to 25 to 30,000 depending on the tuner Well this thing is easily able to make probably 120 to 125 bhp Then if you go one step above which is stage two Which means you have to change the downpipe of the car Which will cost you anywhere between 15 to 20,000 rupees for a downpipe If you want to go for a full exhaust system that's probably another 10 to 15 grand on top And a stock replacement performance air filter will cost you probably 7 to 8 grand for a KNN Piper cross for the brand of your choice Put a tune on top that's another 20 to 25,000 rupees And after that this car will produce anywhere between 135 to 145 bhp theoretically And then comes the big one stage three For that you need to change the turbocharger You have to change the downpipe of course you need a performance air filter And if your tuner recommends then you of course need to get an intercooler for the car And I'm greater intercooler of course And all of that will cost anywhere between probably one to two lakh rupees Depending on where you source the parts from And what your tuner is charging in terms of labor for building the car So after driving this Polo GT TDI 1.6 it's been a very humbling experience Because nowadays we've been driving some Backshit crazy things on the channel 20340, 500 bhp cars And well this thing over here proves all of that wrong Because even this car is very fun to drive And it shows that this much amount of power Even in a stock car is very sufficient for our roads More importantly I know it's a folk so again so it's not only as inexpensive to run and maintain as a Marathi Suzuki or Hyundai But this thing is still pretty cheap I mean Like I said the used turbo for this thing is around 30 to 40k maybe For a CR140 turbo and the whole STA3 build can be done in probably 1.5 to 2 lakh rupees if you have that budget So this is one of the most tuner-friendly cars that you can do in a budget Considering the fact that the car can be bought for anywhere between 4 to 5 lakhs And another probably 2 lakhs on top for all of the modifications And performance mods that you want to do This is a bang for buck car So let us know in the comments down below What you thought of the 1.6 GTTDI Would you have it as your next tuner project car Let us know in the comments down below Subscribe to the channel for more such videos in the future And I'll see you in the next one Also a big shout out to car Cosmic Mumbai for letting us use their studio To film this video They do some really cool detailing work And we've provided their Instagram information Down in the description below And you can also see their Instagram handle On the screen right now So do check them out