The rear end LED's of a Mk7 Golf are bright enough to burn your retinas - I had the misfortune to be following the other half in my car for a few miles around town ....... and god she uses the brakes a lot! 
Followed mine recently too and she has a pretty rear and actually wifes not too bad either
haha
But the MK7 does have a pretty rear and you have to love them LED Clusters and way indicators work, make it really stand out from pretty much most conventional cars let alone other Golfs.
However they are on a lot and maybe due to wife but more so due to the auto hold.
Auto Hold to me has become one of those innate not thought to things where I just stop and go and not worry about how its stopped and as that has become my natural way of driving I would not think to turn it off at all, it stays on permanently.
Think there is a case that auto hold should not have brake lights on as there is not any loss in safety.
You brake up to the point you are stationary at a junction > auto hold activates and brake lights go off, much as if putting handbrake on in a conventional set up.
