Have to say that really do not like the face lift,
Front end looks too forced, as if someone has said it must make a statement, but by doing so have gone too far, and would go as far to say as looks a little grotesque with bottom half out of step with top half of the front end, - less bulging and more subtlety to fall somewhere between the present and this maybe, but definitely gone too far and losing the chrome edging on the skirt is another step back
The wheels if the standard are better than the Cadiz but little underwhelming and the Pretoria still stand apart for me (though there might be other options on FL to consider)
The rear skirting is minor dislike in comparison, as the additional honeycomb seals off the tailpipes, makes less prominent, and make very Audi, reminding me of my last S Line A3
The lights now look like the GTI and you have lost the uniqueness of the double U that differentiated the R from other performance Golfs - You see R coming a mile off but you will have trouble telling them now as most models have angular DRL - think the change worked well on GTI but step back on the R as loses some identity
Think we would all like bigger and high def screen but LED dials and touch less environments are meh, and pretty glad avoided for at least one cycle with experience contained to my PS4
Its nice to see these though as eradicated any thought of missing out on anything and that been elevated to feeling of addition by subtraction as feel got the better deal
