{"id":47042,"date":"2026-06-02T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/volkswagen-group-africa-produces-one-millionth-polo-in-kariega\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:25:37","slug":"volkswagen-group-africa-produces-one-millionth-polo-in-kariega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/volkswagen-group-africa-produces-one-millionth-polo-in-kariega\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Group Africa produces one millionth Polo in Kariega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plant Kariega builds one millionth current generation Polo <\/p>\n<p>Kariega &#8211; Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) has reached another major production milestone with the production of one millionth current generation Polo at its Kariega Plant.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone vehicle is a smoky grey, right-hand-drive Polo GTI destined for the South African market.<\/p>\n<p>VWGA&rsquo;s Plant Kariega started manufacturing the current generation Polo in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>About 86% of these vehicles were exported to international markets such as Germany, UK, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, whilst 14% of these Polos were for the local market.<\/p>\n<p>The current generation Polo accounts for nearly 21% of the 4 803 424 vehicles built at the Kariega plant over the past 75 years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the current generation Polo accounts for 48% of all Polo models ever manufactured at Plant Kariega, signifying the importance of the model to VWGA.<\/p>\n<p>VWGA has been manufacturing the Polo since 1996 and has produced four generations of the model&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77532&#038;page=volkswagen-group-africa-produces-one-millionth-polo-in-kariega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant Kariega builds one millionth current generation Polo Kariega &#8211; Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) has reached another major production milestone with the production of one millionth current generation Polo at its Kariega Plant. The milestone vehicle is a smoky grey, right-hand-drive Polo GTI destined for the South African market. VWGA&rsquo;s Plant Kariega started manufacturing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47043,"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\/25001millionVWPoloMilestoneFinal.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/25001millionVWPoloMilestoneFinal.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042","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=47042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}