The double cab bakkie market is abuzz with the arrival of Volkswagen’s trend setting new VW Amarok TDI, and as to be expected, as Steves Auto Clinic, we are already well on our way to realising impressive gains with this must have for 2010 leisure vehicle.

If you’ve got a Volkswagen with the 1,9-litre turbodiesel, an SAC branch near you can make it an even more efficient operator, with performance and fuel consumption benefits.

A few months ago Steves Auto Clinic released information on their MKV Golf GTI that was then a work in progress. Well now they can report that the upgrade to the car is complete...

The Polo 1,9 TDi Sportline conversion provides true hot hatch performance thanks to an SAC conversion, but without the fuel bills. Following hot on the heels of SAC Engineering's highly successful Golf 4 TDiF development comes the giant-killing Polo TDi, an ultra-compact car which produces inexcess of 125 kW.

In many ways, it is the Golf 4 TDi which really started the turbodiesel revolution in South Africa, and from the model's launch in 1999 until being replaced by Golf 5 midway through 2004, many thousand were sold...