{"id":41273,"date":"2025-11-18T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/volkswagen-celebrates-2-million-polos-built-in-plant-kariega\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:36:57","slug":"volkswagen-celebrates-2-million-polos-built-in-plant-kariega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/volkswagen-celebrates-2-million-polos-built-in-plant-kariega\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen celebrates 2 million Polos built in Plant Kariega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two millionth Polo has rolled off the production line at Plant Kariega<\/p>\n<p>Plant Kariega has been building Polos since 1996<\/p>\n<p>Kariega &ndash; Just shy of the 30-year anniversary of Polo production at Plant Kariega in 2026, Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) celebrated the production of their two millionth Polo. <\/p>\n<p>The special milestone car, a smoky grey Polo which is destined for Australia, rolled off the production line earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>Plant Kariega started building the Polo in 1996, which was known as the Polo Classic. That year, around 5 460 units were produced. Since then, VWGA has been steadily producing Polos and has yielded four different generations of this model.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the two million Polos built so far, 592 840 were made for the local market, while 1 407 160 were produced for export. In 2025 alone, Plant Kariega has already built 112 386 Polos, including 8 274 Polo GTIs.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone underscores VWGA&rsquo;s contribution to the local automotive market and economy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75320&#038;page=volkswagen-celebrates-2-million-polos-built-in-plant-kariega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two millionth Polo has rolled off the production line at Plant Kariega Plant Kariega has been building Polos since 1996 Kariega &ndash; Just shy of the 30-year anniversary of Polo production at Plant Kariega in 2026, Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) celebrated the production of their two millionth Polo. The special milestone car, a smoky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/25002mPolos.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/25002mPolos.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}