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 ($922) 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.
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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 ($19,689) 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 (113 hp / 84 kW).
