Now we all know that the 1 liter TSI has a very friendly car and it's all about the amount of pepiness that the block has and the amount of power that it can get out for the amount of displacement that it's got. But you would be absolutely astounded at the fact that this has three cylinders is the size of a cotton box of like milk or a tetra pack and it still pushes out upwards of 170 bhp. This ladies and gentlemen is what happens when you take the 1 liter TSI engine to somewhere near its limit. The car in question today is a Polo GT TSI 1 liter with a Stage 3 setup. Something that not a lot of people will do because of the cost of going Stage 3 on this engine. But something that is actually an engineering model. The reason why you shouldn't be that confident in putting this much power in a car that is this small and as only front wheel drive is this. My traction is off and I'm just going to take it out for not even a launch. I'm just going to remove my foot from the brake and press the accelerator all the way down. So let's see what's up. There's quite a lot of lag. So the wheels start spinning really quickly and really easily in first gear and second gear they start hooking up by the time you hit 5000 rpm. Mind you this turbo spools pretty late. It spools at around 4000 rpm and then you've got like 2000 rpm to play with. So best believe your newfound power is very high up in the rev range. But that does not mean it's not that does not mean it's not fun. And once you are in that rev range the revs do come up pretty quick. There's a small problem with the 1 liter TSI in the Polo is that it comes with a non DSG gearbox. It comes with a torque converter and that torque converter cannot be mapped for crispiness or any form of better optimum shifting. So you need to do with the stock setup that this TCU has. But the other reason why this thing is not as snappy as you wanted to be in terms of in terms of shifting is because you definitely miss that DQ200 or just a dual clutch gearbox. Even using the paddle shifters on this GTI steering wheel it does not feel that involving just because of that slight delay that stock TCU tune gives you. When it comes to suspension and performance this Squashassi has always been one of our favorites in terms of handling but the steering rack has a little bit of numbness and we have been very open about that. Plus it is a very easy car to tame. It stays pretty flat in most of the corners however hard you chuck it even though you don't have quite a lot of power but that is the only good thing about this car is that it is so mod friendly that you can bring out pretty much 170 180 bhp depending on your on the aggression of your tune and you can get yourself a car that is super peppy very fun and a really nice first car to own. It is going to be pretty fast and it is not that you are not going to keep up with some of your sedan friends. So this is a really great build but it does come with some problems. Now let's get into the performance figures and what this car does when it comes to the 0-100 and quarter mile timings. So these are the draggy times provided by Venom Performance and Vagmaster Chennai and as you can see pretty impressive timings for a 1 liter turbo 3 cylinder and if you recall these timings are actually faster than our stage 2 Lora TSI. Now according to the tuners and the people who have built the car these timings are actually not the full story. The torque converter transmission is a very tricky gearbox to launch and definitely it can shave off a couple of ends to the quarter mile and 0-100 sprint and this brings me to the gearbox. The torque converter is the main limitation to the 1 liter TSI. According to Venom Performance, this same setup in a manual car would easily scrape the 200 bhp mark and produce even better timings. How much better? Well that's something we can say once we get our hands on a 1 liter TSI manual stage 3. Now given that we've had this Polo body for I don't know over a decade in our country, best believe that the customization options for the exterior are endless. Everything from the hood, fender, side skirts, rear diffuser, spoiler, headlamps, tail lamps, everything but it does not mean that you need to go all the way in order to get a perfect looking sporty hatchback. Now this carbon steel grey car comes already with quite a lot of good looks and sporty looks from factory but the owner has done a lot of very thoughtful mods in order to make it look that extra bit special. Like these Japanese racing JR28 rims on Michelin Pilot Sport 4's, he's got updated headlamps and he's got a rear diffuser. That's it, he's got MTS coilovers and this being one of the last cars to come out of the factory, this is a legend edition car so it's got a badging for it too. Now talking about what's under the hood as I mentioned before, this is a Stage 3 setup so it comes with an upgraded turbo, an upgraded turbo from RT MG and that is a Greek company that costs two lakh rupees for a single turbo. Now it comes with a racing line air intake that costs 55,000 bucks and a turbo inlet from Racing Line itself that costs 15,500 rupees. He also has a custom downpipe and a custom mid exhaust all the way till the end and then he's got a DC sports X-Borla muffler in the end to make the car sound absolutely beautiful. It does sound like there are very few mods but the difference is immense. Coming to the price breakdown of the mods, well it is a super long list long enough to make this video at least 20 minutes long so we will stick to the main performance oriented parts. Starting off we have the custom downpipe with the resonator and the Borla muffler that cost a cool 60,000 rupees. The RT MG hybrid turbo costs 1.6 lakh rupees and the stage 3 tune from when a performance cost another 45,000 rupees. All of this power needs a good suspension setup so the MTS coilers cost 95,000 rupees and the JR28 rims cost 1.38 lakh rupees. Rapt around the JR28 are PS4 which cost 44,000 bucks. The car also has a Brembo pick brake kit and supporting mod like braided lines, pads and the rotors. All of that cost 78,000 rupees. To improve the handling even more it gets white line anti-roll bars and adjustable end links which cost 33,000 rupees and 19,000 rupees respectively. It also has a maxi.cluster which is 53,000 rupees and all of the other miscellaneous mods like the super expensive audio setup, diffuser, paddishy steering and many many more things. All of that cost another 4 lakh 23,600 rupees. Combine all of what I just said and this Polo build costs an iWatering 11 lakhs 45,600 rupees. Now of course all of these mods are necessary but it is absolutely bonkers as to how the Indian tuner market is shifting and how people are getting more and more comfortable spending big tickets on small cars. Epic! Now having experienced this tiny little 998cc block and it's stage 3 setup I think that the phrase there's no replacement for displacement is slowly getting out of fashion and if you think that Polo videos are getting a little monotonous in our channel please give us a better car to film and we will be more than happy to apply it but after all the Polo is exactly what it says on the badge. A legend. Huge shout out goes to check engines, Hyderabad, Venom Performance and Vagmaster Chennai for hooking us up with this Polo build and letting us film in their premises. We've left all of their socials down in the description for you all to check them out. 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