The most frugal Polo has been the BlueMotion, which until now, has only been available with a diesel engine. While a 73-horsepower, 76-US-mile-per-gallon BlueMotion TDI will still be available ...

including the Polo TSI BlueMotion, Polo TDI BlueMotion, Polo BlueGT and CrossPolo (pictured above). While they will likely never make an appearance this side of the pond, it is fun to see what ...

The original BlueMotion featured a smoother look than the standard Polo, with a blanked-off grille ... had a specially tuned version of VW's 1.4 TDI three-cylinder diesel, mated to a five-speed ...

For Volkswagen, this new version of the Polo is just the tip of the iceberg ... which is £1,128 more than the much better-equipped 1.4 TDI SE. Yet the Bluemotion 2 is only 7kg lighter, 0.02Cd ...