Mk 8 Golf

[SRGTD]

New Octavia looks pretty good and the interior is very nice. Easily on par with the Mk8, almost perhaps higher quality and they have retained some buttons. Even got the gas struts for the bonnet! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9drdTfkhhY

Looking at the picture of the mk8 Golf’s infotainment screen, my eyes might be deceiving me but is that a row of very slim buttons below the screen - outer buttons to change cabin temperature and and inner buttons for media volume? Hopefully they are buttons, meaning the Golf might also have retained some buttons instead of going completely touch screen.

[Guzzle]

I was fortunate enough to have a closer look at the Mk8 on a recent trip to Germany. They're not proper buttons under the screen, they're still just touch sensitive patches. At least not on the version i sat in. They're quite small, so i imagine they'll be quite fiddly to operate on the move, especially if you have fat fingers. But i believe there's more than one version of the centre screen. It's possible some of the lower spec screens have proper buttons.

[Exonian]

I was fortunate enough to have a closer look at the Mk8 on a recent trip to Germany.

Did I miss your mini review here somewhere? 
Tell us more!

[mike roberts]

Do any of the buttons have haptic feedback?

[Guzzle]

I was fortunate enough to have a closer look at the Mk8 on a recent trip to Germany.

Did I miss your mini review here somewhere? 
Tell us more!

 
No you've not missed it. There's not much to tell really that most won't already have seen or read about on tinterweb. I only had about 5 minutes or so to look around the car, adjust the drivers seat etc. To be fair, tech and styling aside, in the usual Golf fashion it doesn't seem much different to me to the Mk7. Driving position is much the same, doesn't seem any bigger or smaller. Doors close much the same, interior finish may be marginally better but still built to a price. And it was in the same dubious shade of sickly yellowy green as the press launch cars.

It's nice, and looks better in the metal than it does in photos. I'd have one, but maybe not just yet as the tech alone isn't enough of a reason for me to rush out and put my name down when the order books open. I'd also want to see what the Octavia and Leon offer, and whether the tech in those is less of a drastic change and therefore easier for me to get used to.

They also had an ID3 on display which I also liked. Except for the drum brakes on the rear, and the arm rests look like they belong on an office chair   

Few more photos for anyone that's interested

[Guzzle]

Do any of the buttons have haptic feedback?

Sorry, no don't think so. Unless you have to go into the menus to switch it on. 

[Exonian]

Thanks for posting your initial impressions and thoughts (plus photos) Guzzle.
A few paragraphs from yourself, even from a very short time with the car, gives a far better real world insight than umpteen press releases and snippets from journalists.

It’s a relief the car looks better in the metal even allowing for the lurid paint!

The ID.3 sounds a curious thing too. I look forward to seeing one in the flesh myself, not that I’d be in the market for one, merely an interest in the technology and packaging.

[Andy198]

Some pictures of (apparently) a Mk8 GTI here undergoing Arctic testing
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/an-eighth-gen-vw-golf-gti-has-been-caught-on-camera-an-its-barely-disguised/

I still don't like the front but it definitely looks better in GTI form.

[dereks]

Looks like a polo.

It’s a no for me at the moment and those wheels are honking.

[Jim_mk7.5]

Some pictures of (apparently) a Mk8 GTI here undergoing Arctic testing
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/an-eighth-gen-vw-golf-gti-has-been-caught-on-camera-an-its-barely-disguised/

I still don't like the front but it definitely looks better in GTI form.

That's got some great camouflage on to make it hard to tell what the details are.  Fake reverse lights, fake fog lights and extra headlights.

Sure those will be winter testing wheels. They aren't diamond finish so can't be the actual wheels!