Volkswagen announced earlier this year that it would be entering the World Rally Championship starting in 2013 with the Polo R, and we got our first glimpse of the race car here in Frankfurt.

That said, the teams will actually start the season in modified Volkswagen Polo rallycross racers (cars that won the 2013 World Rally Championship), and will switch to the GRC Beetle later in the ...

but VW surprised us with a cherry on top of the icy Sunday, a ride-along in a Polo GTI R5 rally car. The Polo R5 was built in 2018 in collaboration with VW's sister brand Škoda, which also built ...

The rally is based in Karlstad, the former home of Rally Sweden. Solberg is due to pilot a family-owned Volkswagen Polo R5 car at the event alongside co-driver Jonas Andersson, who usually ...