Buying a VW Polo for my wife originally came from me changing from Fords to VX to VW so she fancied changing from Ford to VW - and the Holland based dealerships that were willing to sell RHD cars tended to only sell VWs.
At this latest, 2015 car changing time, two issues, I thought that she was a bit old for a stylish SEAT Ibiza,though if she had bought one of them she would have got a 1.2TSI 16V 110PS FR with Alcantara seating, the other issue was, at the time that I was ready to order SEAT was dragging its feet on getting the new version of the 1.2TSI 16V 110PS into the showrooms and I was not going to buy an old stock 1.2TSI 8V 105PS with crappy rear drum brakes, also the Polo was available with many toys including LED headlights which perform very well out in the countryside where we live. I did price up both Polo and Ibiza to include what I considered that she (I) expected from a car and the pricing for Ibiza with many extra bits was roughly the same if even available.
Our older daughter has had an early 2002 Ibiza 1.4 8V - a dog of a car, then a new late 2009 Ibiza 1.4 16V 86PS which had as many costly stupid failures and BCM S/W issue that my usual SEAT dealer had no idea how to fix it, it started draining its battery, took over a year to resolve using a second SEAT garage, needed a S/W update. Her new but pre-reg'd Leon Cupra came with all its initial factory build faults logged, so I cleared them though door locks work okay but continually hand out faults, a job for its first service at the end of April, not very encouraging start, it runs okay though as far as I have been told. Her boyfriend hates it though he likes old Lotuses so has never updated himself as to what new cars with power are about driving wise!