At first glance I'm not impressed to be honest.. What's going on with that nose, looks way too pointy.
So the platform has changed but overall the car hasn't. The transition from mk5-7 seems more about the interior and even then it looks like the 7 has just carried forward the 6's interior (which to be fair was expected). IMO in some cases the mk6 was a bit of a waste of time.
I need to find full on rear pic now.