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Volkswagen Polo

There are 290,927 of them on Dutch roads, built between 1996 and 2025, weighing anywhere from 972 to 1,372 kg. They share a name and not much else. Here is the spread.

Power per tonne

Where it sits.

Median
58.2kW/t

Half of every Polo on the road is below this. Power divided by mass in running order — the one figure that compares across model and era.

Against the fleet
37th percentile

A typical Polo has more power per tonne than 37% of the 8,248,168 combustion cars in the Netherlands.

Estimated 0–100
11.9s

For the median version, from power, mass and body shape. A prediction, not a measurement.

THE FLEET, WITH THIS MODEL MARKED 41–63 KW/T
30 kW/t100170+
Spread

A Polo is not one car.

The slowest in this sample makes 36.7 kW per tonne and the quickest 110.8 — a factor of 3.0 between two cars wearing the same badge. Any single number for a Polo is an average over that.

EngineShare of the sample kW per tonne
70 kW 95 hp27%58.2
66 kW 90 hp18%54.9
55 kW 75 hp14%45.7
44 kW 60 hp12%36.6
59 kW 80 hp7%49.0
51 kW 69 hp5%42.4
40 kW 54 hp3%33.3
63 kW 86 hp3%52.4

Of 300 sampled: 272 petrol, 26 diesel, 1 petrol + cng, 1 petrol + LPG.

Measured, not estimated

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Your own car

This is the average. Yours is not.

Everything above describes 290,927 cars sharing a name, spanning 1996 to 2025 and 972–1,372 kg. Your Polo has one engine, one mass and one registration. Put the plate in and the answer is about that car rather than about the name on it.

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Method

Where these numbers come from.

SourceRDW open data: the vehicle register and the fuel table carrying net maximum power, joined per vehicle.
Sample300 Volkswagen Polos drawn from five spread windows across the 290,927 registered, because reading the register in stored order returns clumps of one variant. The figures above are that sample, not a census — treat the median as reliable and the extremes as indicative.
Who is left outNothing — every car in this sample burns fuel and nothing else.
The 0–100Integrated from power, mass and drag: traction-limited then power-limited, with a torque interruption for anything with gears. Checked against 18 cars with published factory figures, 7.6% mean error. It does not know which wheels are driven, because the register does not record it.