Unveiled to nice fanfare in 2011 by Volkswagen Chairman Martin Winterkorn on the Frankfurt motor present, the VW Up has handed on to the nice automotive graveyard.
Too small to ever move federal regulation muster on American roads, the Up — which ultimately spawned the Up GTI in Europe and even an E-Up — has been severed from the model’s lineup, leaving the Polo because the smallest mannequin within the Germans’ lineup, in response to Autocar.
The diminutive, funny-faced Up was initially a part of the Volkswagen Group’s New Small Household (NSF) automobile collection, which was provided although its historical past with quite a lot of energy decisions. Again at launch, it may very well be chosen with a 1.0-liter three-cylinder petrol engine producing both 59 or 74 horsepower. A facelift in 2016 introduced extra energy with the introduction of a turbocharged variant producing 89 horses.
Although the years, the automotive was additionally marketed because the “Take Up” and “Transfer Up” (however by no means because the “Throw Up”). It was voted “World Automotive of the 12 months” in 2012.
Because the successor to the Fox, the Up (which some instances appeared because the Up!) was low-cost on the time it was launched, promoting for about $10,000 within the UK. The choice to axe the tiny Up comes after the retirement of the Up GTI, which had arrived in 2018 with 113 horsepower, a sportier design and a six-speed guide gearbox. It was faraway from sale in January this yr. Volkswagen claimed that this was a short lived transfer, but it surely was by no means put again on sale.
There aren’t any quick successors in line for the Up, though it could be adopted by an ultra-compact electrical metropolis automotive referred to as the Volkswagen ID 1, which is about to reach in dealerships throughout the subsequent 5 years.