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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Sootchucker on 09 May 2013, 07:47

Title: Interesting Youtube clip
Post by: Sootchucker on 09 May 2013, 07:47

Was browsing Youtube and found this clip about the interior design process for the MK7 Golf. If you look at the start of the clip, you can see a proper handbrake (not the electronic one that made it through to production).

I'd heard rumours that our American cousins would get the MK7 with a proper handbrake but wasn't sure how this would be implemented, well here's how:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM3BxOn2CRI

Title: Re: Interesting Youtube clip
Post by: monkeyhanger on 09 May 2013, 07:59

Do they normally get a "proper" handbrake? They usually get those levers that pull from out of the dash or a stalk/lever on the steering column whenever you see cars being driven on American telly programmes (admittedly it's usually a Dodge/Chevrolet/Ford).

Title: Re: Interesting Youtube clip
Post by: Sootchucker on 09 May 2013, 08:06

Dunno, but when I was checking out a couple of Golf forums in the good old US of A, they were all moaning about the electronic handbrake saying they couldn't do donuts with them (and I thought they just ate donuts  :grin:), and that it was too complicated, but then apparently VWOA stated that when they get the GTI in 2014, it would come with a "proper" handbrake.

For a country that put a man on the moon and the space shuttle program, I just can't get my head around the fact they can't work or understand the EPB ?