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- The Volkswagen Up! is the smallest car that the German brand makes. It’s a car built for the city - small dimensions make it easy to park, and a tight turning circle and light weight help it feel nippy on the move. But does it still feel grown up enough to take out on the open road? Does the cabin feel posh enough to do the VW badge justice? And is it roomy enough to live with every day? Find out all this and more in my full in-depth review.
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Honestly this guy is the best car reviewer since Top Gear, Should do your own show man, absolute legend
Did any of you find the Easter Egg? It was the music playing on the stereo @6:43 - the theme tune from the movie 'Up'. Fun fact: in order to lift this VW up! from the ground, you'd need to attach it to approximately 71,500 average-sized helium balloons. So now you know.
carwow can you please review the genesis g90
carwow 71,500 helium balloons would be much bigger than the car itself....
Xavier - probably because helium isn't quite as dense as steel ;)
crv 2017
Recognized the music and appreciated it. Cute car - clever front bumper design and like the phone interface. Printed dash is nice, too. It doesn't take leather and carbon fiber to be distinctive.
We were given this car during a rental deal and drove it around 2 months. It surprised us in all the aspects of space, handling, fuel efficiency, driving experience and enjoyment. We used it as a family, with our 3 yo boy and his little stroller, and it satisfied us all in both in-city and long drives...those rear windows was a big security relief even, as our boy keeps opening windows to lean outside. Long story short, I would buy one without a second thought (btw, we own an Octavia but still loved this little cute buddy)
The Up (and its sisters) are head and shoulders above any other car in the class when it comes to build quality and drive. The 75ps engine pulls great in this little car and the 90ps gets it really shifting. The suspension and steering are far more refined than you'd expect. I bought a top spec one for my daughter and I used to nick it for any short journey. Funky, cleverly designed, well built. Even giving it a bit...it always returned around 50mpg on short journeys. Brilliant little car.
I thought there was something wrong with my speakers when I started watching this.
Same
I have this car and I recommend it! It is cheap and small, but it drives really well. Choose the engine with the turbo if you're driving on the highway.
Miles per galon is my new favourite goofy imperial unit
we don't even measure fuel in gallons 😂😭😭😂
Yeah. Because the Miles Per Gallon in the U.K. is different from the Miles Per Gallon used in the U.S. because they are different fricking gallons!
How about England just starts using Miles Per Liter... They don't even officially use Imperial Gallons for anything, anymore.
I watched 20 of his reviews but I'm still not sure what miles per gallon translate in metric. Putting 60 miles per gallon in Google it says 3.9l per 100km, but that is quite efficient, like really efficient. I have the 2015 model and in the city I normally do 4.8l per 100km.
Mine's pound per square foot. Sounds like something a drunk man'd say.
I've had an up! about a year. Love it! (it has stop/start) Very Eco, and for its size very practical. When we camp as a family we take both cars as have a new shape polo too. All the camping stuff for 5 goes into the UP! with the seats down! (large 6 man tent and poles, all chairs, sleeping bags, blow up beds, cookers and gas and 2 tables. It's also great fun to drive. We are so happy with it on many levels.
@Ibi many. I know people who have had them last years. Ive also had vw of different ages for the last 20 years and northing has compared to them for robust and reliability so I don't buy into the negativity around them after my experiences. Members of my family have also had vw or audis and recent years skoda and they've all found the same as us.
I've got an Up! and it's brilliant - you really do not need any other car. It's fast enough and well-built and nice and easy to drive. Can't complain. Well, apart from the 60bhp is sometimes not enough. It is slow if you are in the wrong gear, that's for sure. So I want a Tsi asap. Nice review, by the way.
"If you want to carry three in the back, well you can't" 😂
Oh look, people hating on VW, tho most of them have never even driven the car. A usual day in the carwow comment section.
Martin Alexander There is the price, emissions scandal and the UP needs your phone for a screen! and 42mpg is poor.
I'm Your Huckleberry Almost every car company has been involved with an emissions scandal. Volkswagen just happened to get caught first.
ford cars can burn, the brand already has 3 massive emission device scandals and no one cares. haters are haters
connor plaksin actually no, volkswagen is around 40 years late or something from being the first, ford is around their third scandal, its just because volkswagen is german so we have to pretend is evil. (i m not german btw)
jh5kl oh really? Interesting. I was talking about the 2000s though lol
Best City car on the market. I own a 2013 one and just love it!!
The parcel shelf can be stored in a slot behind the rear bench rather than on the boot floor.
I have one. Had to change the steering column right when I bought it. 4 years later the rear brakes were gone and the front ones still are quite bad. I dont think the mpg is that bad honestly.
I've done maintenance.
Planning on this for my first car, but the 2012 version. Hopefully the High Up! but I'll take a Move Up! happily.
NO START/STOP, thank God!!
whats wrong with that?
Victor Rykowski Start stop literally cuts the engine out every time you stop, as soon as you stop. Might save a little bit on fuel but just wears out the starter motor. It’s not necessary and very annoying.., that’s what wrong with start stop
YourAverageJoe can’t you turn it off?
Victor Rykowski You can turn off start stop , but have to turn it off every time you start the car again, and it’s easy to forget sometimes especially when most cars have the button to turn it off far away from the ignition or actual engine start button
YourAverageJoe thats stupid
My new 2018 Move Up 59hp, is the first petrol driven vehicle ive owned, where its possible to achieve the claimed fuel efficiency figures claimed by Volkswagen in everyday normal driving.
VW claim my car can achieve around 64mpg on the combined sycle, well i have achieved that figure, and even improved on it as well.
The car is superb on long journey's and is a great car to own,
He's brilliant at describing and reviewing cars!
I bought this car new 2015 for my wife (Move Up model with all extras, paid 15,000 euros, white, four doora) and it is honestly fantastic car in every sense, strongly recommended! I drive big petrol fast cars all my life (Merc E, Audi A6, old Saab Aero, Golf GTI was the weakest i had) so i am not diesel or Hyundai driver so to speak.
Helium effect ! Wow 😁
Maybe we should start a new channel: noblegaswow
Haha I found it funny
narutotunisiano I
I thought it was the TH-cam sound bug at t first
I have just bought my first car and it’s a 2015 Up! Picking it up next week... I can’t wait! It’s such a lovely little car 😊
My first car - 2019 vw high up. I want to keep it forever while my mates wanna get rid of their cars. Shows how good the up really is
can you compare the Audi a1 with the polo? Thanks!
Hi Matt. I was told that the Start/Stop feature ruins the ignition motor and isn't very good for the engine either. Is this true? I have it in my car but always turn it off.
Cabin looks like the inside of a fridge.
And the outside looks like a washing machine, VW crap.....
@@M.S-Music but it sells well
@@raphi25895 Yeah, just shows how stupid and easily fooled people are....
@@M.S-Music yes but no
@@raphi25895 Blaa blaa, blablaa blaa blaaa
I drive a 2012 Up and it's still brilliant.
I have a few notes to add for people looking to get an Up! The maps and more phone mount is free when you get a High Up! model, regular MPG for my own TSI is over 65 mpg and 2018 UP! TSI come with stop/start.
You sounded like Paul O'Grady at the start 🤣🤣
Cant wait for the GTI version :D !
U gonna do a review of the up GTI as Well?(when it comes out)
In Brazil it's a expensive car, shortlist but much economy only .
Congratulation Matt for vídeo!
I always turn off my stop start,because its just too annoying
I would consider pop out rear side windows a distinct advantage...............I haven't had those since my Renault Fuego and a feature I appreciated after also having them in a Mk1 Cortina GT.......probably before Mat was born!!!
Matt, does the UP ride like the Passat B7? I have one and it drives quite horribly and the seats are quite bad. I am 186-187cm tall or around 6ft1. Please, let me know if it is a good alternative for switching the car.
And they are also pretty reliable I got one from 2012 and it’s got 190k km and still runs as smooth as the new up gti which I also have
Matt you make my day. You're hilarious
Actually that infotainment system is pretty neat. I've got the Discover Pro in my Golf, which is something like 2500 Euro (so 1/4th of an up!), and the screen has a much lower resolution than my phone, the system is a bit slow etc. Yes, it is still superior to putting a phone in there, but not by much. Certainly not by 2500 Euro. Plus if you want a big screen, get an affordable tablet. I don't know what sizes the mount supports, but it's a smart, affordable alternative to built in infotainment systems. And it's not like Mercedes interiors look like someone just glued an iPad in there. Might as well get a real iPad and benefit from the better screen etc.!
I know the cars are similar but would you ever do a Skoda Citigo review as I am considering buying one as a first car for a 17 year old but am not sure if it will suit well
Love your voice at the start 😂
I just Love your reviews. You are really funny. Thanks.
by the time you make a good configuration the car price jumps to £14,000. great reviews, thanks
Is there an solution for tge headrest because its 1 with the chair and you can t adjust it. And im to big for it
any chance you do review of hyundai i20 coupe ?
I just test drove a 2014 CNG ... The Gas Shower Thingy was in the blue range ... The revs kept on going up without an increase in power when I put my foot down a little bit .... Is it a feature to conserve fuel in the blue range , or is there something wrong ??? Its getting Cold !!!
Can you review the smart forfour pls! Thanks
Máquina hermosa!!!
Is that a oneplus 5? He finally changed his old HTC one! No more free ads for HTC though.
This car looks like the ultimate small delivery car if you're anywhere outside the USA but I bet it would be extremely diffucult to drive it in USA because of all the ''huge'' cars, trucks, SUVs etc...
5:43 I don't know if you missed it. Our UP has a compartment for the tools, triangular safety reflector and the first aid kit under the bottom cover. It's made of fairly hard Polyurethane foam.
There is the subwoofer for the beats audio system
I went to a VW dealership and tried the Take up! and the beats and they shound the SAME, just a little less low end bass, minus the subwoofer and EQ adjustment.
So be careful 😊
Do the Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo 1.0tsi :)
A review of the new Suzuki Swift would be great!
So was that sound the mudflaps touching the road or ?
I love your helium voice
I have one and love it.
Matt, I was trying out my first pair of new wireless headphones. Thus imagine my surprise and frantic search of the nonexistent cable for connection issues when your voice came on...
Speaking of no air con, if you had to keep either car as a daily driver for a year, (even through the summer) would you rather have a base model VW up! that doesn't have air conditioning or... a G-Wiz electric car?
Crawling on your belly across two miles of broken glass would be a safer and more pleasant commute than a G-Wiz
carwow Could you imagine your kids trying to get some oxygen through "fully open" vent windows in the back on non-AC up's?!
Stop start doesn't make sense on a 1l engine anyway - it would take 10 hours at idle to use 1 gallon so in city at 45mpg, 18mph average and 18% idle time the saving is (up to) 4.5%.
I have had one for ten years and have no complaints .
I have this car too. There is indeed an auto engine turn off feature. Probably they were testing a non blue motion variant..
As a former owner of Volkswagen Up! i have to say that by far the MOST annoying thing about that car is rear shelf which doesn't fall when you close a boot door. If you owned an Up you know what i mean.
Patryk Wisniewski got good news for you, I've had one (2015) and they fixed that, the shelf does come up and fall down, and there is even a light in the boot ;)
Yes, they fixed in the facelift. And if that's the most annoying thing, then things are pretty good, don't you think? ;) Still the best small cars after 8 years.
I really like your high pitched voices at the beginning of the video
The spare kit in the boot is meant to be stored securely under the boot (with the spare wheel).
@Laura open the boot, lift the floor flap, the kit is inside the wheel itself
Thinking of one of these as a first car, 2013 base model, 1300 quid insurance, not bad
Very thorough review. Noice
Mat please try to review a Fiat 500.
Apparently Fiat doesn't pay as much as VW or Ford.
I can't fault our VW Up, our's is only 60ps but does a great job for the price paid. We had a better specced Corsa LE before but the Up feels like a better car in our opinion. Based on the GF's Up, I went on to order an Up GTI.
Christopher Reed i have the VW up to and put on it 160.000 km and is still like new! big like for the up GTI...fun to drive but daily low cost of gas and insurence!
got this car with a 65 plate, love it!
VW Lupo / VW Up no longer sold in Australia :(
what's this background music at 6 min pls?
I wanted to buy this vw up! In automatic gearbox and bring here in the philippines for city drive
Seems like the sound insulation is surprisingly good.
Please do the GTI version of the Up
When is model 3 review coming out?
I can't even imagine how many takes they needed to film that intro
6:25 wait you actually like stop start ???
You deserve an oscar for these reviews
The comment you made about you can’t get stop start in 1 L turbo model I’ve got exactly that car 1 L TSI up beats addition and I’ve got stop start and it works perfectly well
I m visiting Greece for 24 days in October and I need to rent a car.
The VW up is at £ 4.85 / day = £ 116.47 for the 24 days.
My other option is the Suzuki Swift at £ 6.67 /day = £ 160.14 for the 24 days.
I will drive in the city and also on the highways.
The VW has got a usb for mobile phones which I m not sure if the Suzuki has too...I need to have my mob phone constantly charged cause its got an issue with its battery so usb matters to me.
Any ideas in general ? Which one should I get ? Does the swift got a usb ?
And I cant get another battery for the phone as its one of those that wont come off, I m buying another phone in a month or 2 when the 5g phones hit the market...
the rear looks like proton iriz (Malaysia)
Which are the differences between 60hp and 75hp engines?
You have switches from a golf and everything is solid. Have you heard the door thunks on these or the fit and finish of the car itself? Nothing can touch it in its class. Not t mention refinement. There is a reason why Ford and PSA tried to sue Volkswagen for the Up when it came out lol 😂😂😂😂
I had this car (facelift) for one year and I have to admit it felt very grown up, was pretty spacious for being such a small car and was extremely refined. The engine was a n/a port injected engine with no modern technology, so even though it was a little rough, I'm sure it's reliable and it was surprisingly good at keeping up with traffic! Put its power out way better than any of the other small engines they put it city cars and didn't need a crazy amount of revs to keep up on the highway at 120 km/h. Handled very well as well!
The only thing that was absolutely horrible was it's single clutch automatic gearbox. They could've put a DSG in here (smart/Renault did it) or get a better single clutch one. PSA has a very smooth single clutch gearbox. That was the only thing that ruined the driving experience a bit.
Love this car
Do a Seat Ibiza FR review!!!
not available with dsg?
Here in latín América the up is bigger and it has actual windows in the five door version
Are VW releasing a new e-up! for 2018?
Aint this the BEATS Up
Love these wee cars
Hey carwow, do you plan introducing a new 'test' for the cars you review, like does it fit a wheelchair?
Vw up gti or Renault twingo gt? Which one feels better to drive?
Micael Rebelo The Up
I have the Seat Mii and get 60 mpg all day long without even trying - amazing little cars
Excellent fish impression
You should review the new Kia Picanto.
Honestly, not having start-stop is an advantage.
I would love to have an Up! as a first car
when you will make Honda crv 2017 review
Volkswagen Up yours..........Good review though as always!
Can you make a mirror version of your videos Mat? This way people who have a steering wheel on the left side can get a better feeling of how cars feel like inside ;)
now a comparrison between this and the new picanto :)