VW Up: Up-driven

The VW-up finds ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com editor Insa Winter ideal as a city runabout

"The Italians drive quite crazy, but they accept that you are driving the same way," my passenger assures me, "and she is right." The Wolfsburgers have carefully chosen this backdrop for the presentation of their VW Up. In the midst of this, we are drifting towards the sea on the "Via Aurelia." Well, I think, given the car temperament of the Romans, the VW Up is just a few minutes away get in and out, even uphill without problems - that's the way it should be.

With open windows comes almost a little convertible feeling (the funny beach buggy version is for the time being only a nice concept model). Pleasantly easy to steer the VW Up, only rapid spurts are not in it, but the engine is sometimes so quiet that I wonder if he even runs.



It gets rough later, as we get to feel the cobblestones very clearly in narrow streets. In the dense stop-and-go traffic around the Colosseum I get to know the car enthusiasm of the Italians really well. They honk, wave, shout. Whether something is wrong with the car? But on the contrary. "Is this the new Lupo?" Asks me in broken English an Italian who leans on the side lane far out of the window. I'm speechless. I would not notice the VW Up in this colorful bunch of other mini-mobiles. "No. Modello nuovo", I break in the South. "No Lupo ... no fox ... È il nuovo Up!"

I'll bet that this spontaneous interest will also show in other metropolises. So then: Up, up and away ...

When handing over the keys at the hotel I am happy: no scratch in the paint! Despite tight curves, micro-parking spaces and breakneck driving style of the Romans. But I adapted to that faster than I should actually be nice. At the end my co-driver says: "Great ride !? Uuups, does she mean me now? Or the VW Up?



INFO: VW Up

Length Width Height: 3.54 / 1.64 / 1.48 m

Engines: 60/75 hp

top speed: 171 km / h

consumption: from 4.2 l / 100 km (CO2: 97 g / km)

price: from 9850 euros.

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