The Volkswagen Virtus came as a much-needed replacement for the Vento sedan, and it is one of the nicer petrol sedans you can buy right now. VW offers the car with a 1.0-litre TSI and 1.5-litre TSI petrol engines. And while the former is offered with both a 6-speed manual and a 6-speed automatic gearbox, the latter only get a 7-speed DSG automatic. While we have already tested both the automatic versions of the car in May, we recently got to get behind the wheel of the 1.0 TSI manual version of the Virtus. It’s powerful, refined and fun-to-drive but does that make it the best petrol manual sedan in this segment? Let’s find out.
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