Some years ago when I first test drove a Mk 7 shortly after it was launched (2013), the salesman said he went out the previous day with an older gentlemen (maybe early 70's). Expecting a rather sedate test drive, he had the shock of his life when the old boy tore it round the bends, using the gears properly and really going for a spirited drive!
Wasn't dangerous, but it was not what he was expecting at all!