猩式车评：大众Polo

The Clarkson review: VW Polo Edition 50 review

猩式车评：大众Polo 50周年纪念款

it’s just a car, but a bloody good one

一台纯粹而美妙的好车

Saturday February 21 2026, 10.00pm GMT, The Sunday Times

发布于2026年2月21日，泰晤士报

I was threading my way through the narrow and ridiculously congested streets of a Cotswolds village called Charlbury when I spotted a wrinkly old man shuffling along the pavement. He was at least a hundred and thirty-seventeen years old and bent almost double by the driving rain, the cold and the arthritis in his brittle bones.

那天我开车穿过科兹沃尔德（英国小镇，大猩猩家乡）中一个叫Charlbury的村庄，道路狭窄而拥挤。中途我看到一位满脸皱纹的老人在倾盆大雨中蹒跚前行，他至少有一百三十七岁，被冰冷的雨水、刺骨的寒风、脆弱的骨头上发作的关节炎包裹着，身体几乎要弯下去了。

But when he saw that I was driving an E-type Jaguar, he stood up straight, shoulders back and arms outstretched as though greeting the arrival of God himself. And he beamed. You’ve never seen a smile so huge. It made my day because it demonstrated that while they may be shrinking in number, there are still some people out there who can be made happy by seeing a car. Oh, and because I’d brightened the day of a very old man. Which is as satisfying as spoiling the day of a socialist. Which is something else I was doing, come to think of it.

但是，当他看到我开着的是一台捷豹E-type时，他佝偻的身体突然挺直，肩膀向后掰直，双臂微微张开，仿佛在迎接上帝的到来。我看到老人的微笑，这是一副我从未见过的、灿烂无比的笑容，让我开心了一整天。我意识到哪怕车迷的数量在不断减少，但他们依旧会因为一台好车而开心雀跃。而且，让一位老人如此开心，我的内心也十分满足，正如我开着E-type在乡村里用尾气熏走那些社会主义者（指现英国执政党-工党的成员，主张环保主义）的感觉一样惬意。

The thing is, I wasn’t driving an E-type Jaguar. It had started out that way, but then an American man commissioned a small British engineering firm called Eagle to make it as light as was humanly possible. So they replaced all the 1960s ironmongery with stuff from the exotic end of the periodic table to create what’s called the Lightweight GTR. The body is aluminium, the wheels are magnesium, the wheel lugs and the conrods and the gearlever are titanium, the battery is lithium, the brakes are carbon-ceramic, the plenum chamber is carbon fibre and the badge at the front of the bonnet is now a sticker. And the end result of all this Ozempic engineering is a car that weighs 975kg. The Hindenburg weighed more than that and it was full of hydrogen.

问题是，我开的不是原厂的E-type。当然，一开始它没有经历过任何改动，随后一位美国人委托一家名叫“Eagle”的英国小型工程公司改装原版E-type，使其尽可能地轻。于是Eagle的工程师们把上世纪六十年代的五金件换成了元素周期表上各类千奇百怪的稀有金属，创造了Lightweight GTR。它的车身是铝合金的，轮毂是镁合金的，轮毂螺栓、发动机连杆和变速箱档把是钛合金的，蓄电池是锂电的，刹车是碳陶瓷材质的，集气箱是碳纤维的，车头的金属标也替换成贴纸。结果就是这台吃了司美格鲁肽（减肥药）的E-type净重仅975千克，就连上世纪三十年代充满氢气的兴登堡飞艇都比它要重。

The engine has been changed too. After some boring and stroking, it is now a 4.7-litre straight-six, which is fed by triple Weber 45 carburettors and produces about 420 brake horsepowers. Which is a huge amount in a car that weighs less than my lawnmower.

E-type上原本的3.8升直列六缸引擎也发生了变化，通过对发动机的镗缸、增加发动机排量，它被改造成一具4.7升直列六缸发动机，加上三个韦伯45化油器，能够迸发出425匹马力。对于一台比家里的割草机还要轻的车来说，性能可以说是相当强悍了。

So when you’re done making very old men very happy, you can find a nice bit of road and make yourself happy too. It’s a lovely car to drive. It’s modern and tight but somehow still old-skool. The noise it makes, for instance, is deliciously farty and in one particularly heavy downpour my right leg did get a bit wet. You’d moan if it happened in your Nissan Note but in the GTR? Nah. It would be like staying in an olde-worlde hotel and moaning about banging your head on the beams.

所以，当你让一位老人非常开心之后，你也能找到一条让自己开心的道路去驾驶。Lightweight GTR的驾驶感受非常棒，它既现代又紧凑，不过也有个别老车的小毛病。比如它的完美声浪伴随的尾气相当熏人，某次瓢泼大雨时我的右腿还被顺着车身缝隙漏下来的雨水淋湿了。如果这种问题发生在日产两厢车里，你肯定要抱怨几句。但在Lightweight GTR里？我是不介意的，就跟住在木制的老式酒店里随口吐槽挡着你脑袋的横梁一样，那都不叫事儿。

What might make your eyes go a bit crossed is the price. It’s £1.3 million. But actually that’s right in the ballpark for cars that have been reimagined and rebuilt using the latest materials and technology. A company down the road from me called Theon is making exquisite- looking Porsche 911s and they too can go for seven figures.

然而，Lightweight GTR 130万英镑（约合人民币1200万）的售价可能会吓到你。不过，对于一台用最新的材料和科技打破常规、脱胎换骨的经典老车，这个价格也是合理的。在我家不远处，有一家叫Theon的公司，专门定制外观无比精致的老保时捷911，他们的成品售价也高达近千万。

Then you have Alfaholics from Somerset, which charges about £300,000 for one of its exquisite GTAs, and there’s an Italian outfit called Kimera that wants a similar amount for turning a Lancia Montecarlo into an extremely beautiful tribute to the 037.

除此之外，来自萨默塞特郡（位于英国西南部）的Alfaholics可以对老阿尔法罗密欧GTA进行精致的现代化改装，成品要价30万英镑（约合人民币277万）；还有一家意大利改装厂Kimera，拿原版的蓝旗亚Montecarlo魔改成帅气无比的Evo 037来致敬曾经的拉力王者037。

If you have your eye on a classic, chances are there’s a company out there who will, for an enormous amount of money, restore and modify it. It’s called “restomodding” and I must say it does appeal. An electric 1956 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. A pagoda-roofed Mercedes SL with an AMG V8 under the bonnet. A friend of mine has a series one Range Rover that is moved along by an Aston Martin V12. It’s very fun.

如果你一直关注某款经典车，市面上很可能会出现一家公司愿意为其修复和改装，只是你要支付的账单价格会高得吓人。人们将这种行为成为“复古改装”，而他们改装后的成品也很让我心动。试想一下：纯电的1956年款劳斯莱斯银云；塞着AMG V8的奔驰SL pagoda（可拆卸硬顶敞篷）；我的一位朋友把他的初代路虎揽胜引擎替换成阿斯顿马丁的V12机头，开起来很好玩。

I know the purists scoff at this sort of thing but it doesn’t stop me dreaming. And what I dream about most of all is the sister car to the Eagle GTR. It’s the Speedster and it’s the best-looking “thing” ever made by man. The Trevi Fountain. That Zaha Hadid art gallery in Baku. The Riva Aquarama. They all pale into insignificance alongside it. I still yearn to own one, even though it costs about £1 million. This sounds like silly money, and it is if you see it as a car. But not if you see it, as I do, as art. Because just last year a painting by Gustav Klimt — me neither — sold for £179 million.

我知道纯粹主义者们会嘲笑这种魔改的经典车，但这无法阻止我对复古改装车的渴求，而我最想要的就是Lightweight GTR的兄弟Eagle Speedster，她是人类制造的最美的“物品”。就连特雷维喷泉（意大利罗马市最大的巴洛克式喷泉），阿利耶夫文化中心（阿塞拜疆共和国首都巴库的标志性现代建筑）和Riva Aquarama（意大利顶级豪华游艇）都无法匹敌她的美丽。我一直渴望拥有她，哪怕她的售价高达100万英镑（约合人民币920万）。这个价格乍一看是为冤大头准备的，前提是你把她视为一台车。如果你像我一样，把她认定为艺术品，那这个价格就非常合理了。就在去年，一幅由Gustav Klimt（19世纪奥地利象征主义画家）绘制的画作——我也没拥有过——卖到了1.79亿英镑（约合人民币16.46亿元）。

And now, having ensured that the comments section of the online edition is full of tax-the-rich sentiments, let’s see if I can calm our lefty friends with a nice, sensible review of the Volkswagen Polo. Specifically, a new version to commemorate its 50th birthday. That makes it the same age as Microsoft, David Beckham and Jaws.

在确保网站的评论区充斥着各种给富豪上税的激动情绪之后，看看接下来大众Polo的评测是否能让各位左翼人士冷静一些。准确地说是，是既理性又好开的大众Polo 50周年纪念款，长达半个世纪的历史让它与微软、大卫·贝克汉姆和电影《大白鲨》同龄。

So you’d imagine that as it’s such a big milestone, VW would break out the party hats and festoon it with amusing nods to the past. A fake wood dashboard, say, like in the very first Polo. Or maybe it would paint every panel a different colour as with the Harlequin Polo 30 years ago.

所以，你可以想象在50周年这个重要的里程碑，大众会打破常规，用一些有趣的设计来纪念曾经的辉煌，比如初代Polo上的假木纹内饰面板，或是像30年前的Harlequin Polo一样，在车身的每个面板上涂不同的颜色。

Well, it hasn’t. All you get are little 50 badges, a sunroof and some biggish wheels. Not very much, really, for £26,850.

然而，大众并没有在设计上搞什么花活，只是在普通Polo上加了个50周年徽章、天窗和更大的轮毂，没什么新鲜的，要价26,850英镑（约合人民币24.8万）。

I was ready to dismiss it as a cynical marketing tool. And it is. Then I took it for a drive and it was like coming home. Nothing was annoying. Nothing was where you wouldn’t expect to find it. A lot of new cars are designed like other people’s kitchens. They have teaspoons in a drawer that’s nowhere near the coffee machine and sugar under the sink. Well, the Polo’s not like that. It’s like your house. Familiar. Comforting. And it was a doddle to turn off all the warning bongers.

一开始我还把它视为大众愤世嫉俗的营销工具，事实也确实如此。然后我开着它转了一圈，感觉就跟回家了一样，所有按钮和功能都出现在它应有的位置上。现如今很多新车的内饰设计得就跟别人家的厨房一样，汤勺扔在咖啡机旁边的抽屉里，糖被塞到了水槽下面。Polo跟它们不一样，让你仿佛回到了家，一切都很熟悉，很安心，关掉那些安全警告也是顺手的事。

There’s more. It was extremely light to drive, mainly because it isn’t burdened with any unnecessary batteries, it was very comfortable and there was a surprising amount of space in both the boot and the cabin. Also, the Polo does well in safety tests. Which is why my youngest daughter has one.

不仅如此，Polo开起来非常轻巧，主要是因为它没装那些不必要的电池来拖累它。它坐起来很舒服，内部空间和后备箱容积都很大。而且，Polo在撞击测试中也体现出极高的安全性，这也是为什么我最小的女儿买了它用作日常通勤。

The three-cylinder, 1.0-litre engine was a joy. Guttural, economical and surprisingly powerful. I now think manual gearboxes are as irritating as having a television with no remote, but somehow, in the 50, it felt right that my left leg had something to do. It was like being back in 1984. I even considered playing some Kenny Loggins as I whizzed along.

Polo搭载的那台1.0升三缸小机器开起来很有趣，好听，省油，而且出乎意料地有劲。虽说我觉得现在的手动挡就跟不带遥控器的电视一样烦人，但在Polo里，一切感觉都很对味，我的左脚很自然地配合着换挡踩下了离合，这种体验让我回想起1984年的美好，我甚至考虑在开着Polo的时候放一些Kenny Loggins（美国著名歌手，活跃于上世纪80年代）的歌。

I’m not sure I’d spend the extra cash on the 50 edition, but if you want a really good small car, take a long hard look at the normal and less expensive versions. And hurry — VW is busy working on the new Polo, which will have all sorts of absurd Miliband nonsense in it.

我不确定自己是否会加钱买Polo 50周年纪念款，如果你想要一台好开的小车，仔细研究一下性价比更高的普通款Polo。一定要抓紧时间——大众正忙着研制现款Polo的换代车型，可能会塞满各种环境保护的荒诞标语。

To sum up, then, the Polo is not art and it’s not an electrical appliance either. It’s a car. And a bloody good one.

总的来说，Polo算不上艺术品，也不是家用电器，它就是一台纯粹的车，而且是一台正儿八经的好车。

大众 Polo Edition 50（50周年纪念款）

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