{"id":45690,"date":"2026-04-08T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/volkswagen-group-africa-celebrates-production-of-500-000-polos-for-export\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:37:27","slug":"volkswagen-group-africa-celebrates-production-of-500-000-polos-for-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/volkswagen-group-africa-celebrates-production-of-500-000-polos-for-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Group Africa celebrates production of 500 000 Polos for export"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plant Kariega builds the 500 000th current Polo for export
\n\tPolo recognised by top South African and German motoring magazines<\/p>\n

Kariega – Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) has reached another major milestone with the production of the 500 000th unit of the current Polo for the export market. The milestone vehicle was a Crystal Ice Blue, right-hand-drive Polo destined for the United Kingdom, which is one of VWGA’s main export markets.<\/p>\n

The current Polo has been in production at Plant Kariega since 2021. On average it takes three days and 1 985 sets of hands to build one Polo, with around 1 400 individual parts coming together to create this popular Volkswagen model. Over the past 30 years, four generations of the Polo have been produced in Kariega, showing the plant’s long-standing stature of building this iconic model.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Plant Kariega became the sole global exporter of the Polo to 38 international markets. Earlier this year, the Polo was voted “Best Small…<\/p>\n

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Plant Kariega builds the 500 000th current Polo for export Polo recognised by top South African and German motoring magazines Kariega – Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) has reached another major milestone with the production of the 500 000th unit of the current Polo for the export market. The milestone vehicle was a Crystal Ice Blue, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45691,"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\/2500Polomilestone.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/2500Polomilestone.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690","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=45690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}