{"id":135750,"date":"2010-01-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-3\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:00:00","slug":"video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135750","title":{"rendered":"Video: Mk1 Volkswagen Polo by AME Racing does the quarter in 9.38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/motorsports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Motorsports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/volkswagen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Volkswagen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-3\/#continued\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/ame_polo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>MkI Volkswagen Polo by AME Racing &#8211; Click above to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-3\/#continued\">watch the video<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nRemember that drag racing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/05\/video-700-hp-saab-99-quattro-turbo-is-like-missing-koenigsegg-a\/\">700-horsepower Saab 99<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/make\/audi\">Audi<\/a> Quattro chassis swap? Well here&#8217;s the MkI Volkswagen Polo version of that car, by AME Racing. The Wild Wild East German tuning house thoroughly reworked the motor, getting 1,032 horsepower and 701 pound-feet out of the 1.9-liter lump. Yes, a giant turbo is involved. Redline is a sky-high 9,500 rpm. Going from standstill to 60 miles per hour takes 2.3 seconds. That&#8217;s less time than it took you to read that sentence.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let the car do the rest of it&#8217;s talking. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-3\/#continued\">Follow the jump<\/a> to see the vid and watch a Polo do things that can only be described as &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wot.motortrend.com\/6622143\/video\/today-is-a-slow-day-so-heres-a-1032-hp-vw-polo\/index.html\">Motor Trend<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Video: Mk1 Volkswagen Polo by AME Racing does the quarter in 9.38<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/video-mk1-volkswagen-polo-by-ame-racing-does-the-quarter-in-9-3\/\">Video: Mk1 Volkswagen Polo by AME Racing does the quarter in 9.38<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:00:00 EST.  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Well here&#8217;s the MkI Volkswagen Polo version of that car, by AME Racing. The Wild Wild East German tuning house thoroughly reworked the motor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}