So we've had a bit of time to get used to some of the gadgets the new car came with. Here's my review!
Adaptive Cruise
Good in light motorway traffic (i.e. set your chosen speed and it eases off quite nicely if you have a rare need to slow a little). The best thing about it is it's very sensitive to big speed differential. A couple of times I was wondering why it was easing off so much but then noticed the car in front had slowed suddenly because a lorry was wanting to pull out.
In stop/start traffic, it's quite annoying because while it works, it is as stupid as the driver in front. If you end up with one of those people who just tailgates the car in front and doesn't look beyond, you'll end up lurching between accelerating and braking like they do, so I tend to leave it off even though in theory it would be nice to let it do its job.
Lane Assist
In theory I like the idea - if distracted for a moment and you get close to a line, you find out about it and it nudges the car the right way, but when going through roadworks it would decide a line I was supposed to cross was not to be crossed! Also, you have to signal before you get close to crossing a line to stop it kicking in. Most of the time it was fine, but occasionally I'd indicate a tiny bit too late to stop it doing a correction... which was annoying. So I'm not sure if I'll ever switch it on again...
Dynamic Light Assist
After spending about 3 hours trying to figure out how to go between auto mode and manual, and getting confused about when I'd left it in manual mode or automatic (apologies to some poor bloke with retinal burns in Northumberland), I finally got comfortable with it and it's actually really great. I leave it on all the time and only override it when I can see people's glow coming round a bend, or when travelling slowly through unlit villages or single track road (where it won't automatically go to full beam because you're going too slow). On A roads it was really brilliant, and I also like the swivel feature (I think all cars have that).
Driving Modes
I'm still a bit confused. I thought 'Eco' mode would be remembered from the last time you used the car, but even though it seems to be selected, the freewheel feature (DSG only?) doesn't seem to work till you explicitly cycle through the modes back to Eco. Maybe that's wrong, but it seemed that way. In the end I just left it in "normal" unless doing a boring motorway journey, and I switch the DSG into sport when I want it to be a bit more nippy. A bit of me would prefer not to have to choose any of this stuff to be honest.
Digital Display etc.
A big fan, though still getting used to all the menus. The biggest issue is that we have "satnav stress". Android Auto gives us the google maps we normally use, but I prefer the in-built maps (they look nicer). Now, when either satnav gets us stuck in traffic we end up having a row about using the other one :-)