Too big to be supermini, new VW Polo is mint

It is hard to credit that the VW Polo has been with us since 1975 and that we are now looking at the sixth generation of a machine that has gestated from utilitarian micromini into a sophisticated and technologically crammed supermini, says Declan Colley.

At this remove it seems difficult to reconcile what was once the Ebenezer Scrooge of the small car market — what with its cravenly primitive innocence — with that which now presents itself to us.