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Offline fredgroves

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #50 on: 31 August 2020, 22:09 »
It's got higher pressure fuel injectors apparently. Which both increases fuel economy and broadens the torque range. Top gear reckons it drives more like a desiel now...
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #51 on: 02 September 2020, 21:56 »
Thomas didn't smile once during his review.
Jonny didn't smile once during his review.
When I accelerate hard up a slip road or come back to my 7.5 GTI and get the front 3/4 view, I smile. Sorry, but VW have utterly messed up the Mk 8 and produced a complete pile of dung.
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #52 on: 03 September 2020, 23:12 »
Thomas didn't smile once during his review.
Jonny didn't smile once during his review.
When I accelerate hard up a slip road or come back to my 7.5 GTI and get the front 3/4 view, I smile. Sorry, but VW have utterly messed up the Mk 8 and produced a complete pile of dung.

I think that’s an excellent point.
The reason I found the vid so boring after a while was because Thomas wasn’t inspired by the thing in the slightest. He was doing his job but wasn’t exactly enjoying what he was driving in ways that he should.
A very competent car but not what it should be in some areas.
I’ve yet to watch Johnny’s vid but I’ll get round to it.
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #53 on: 04 September 2020, 00:25 »
We must have been watching completely different videos, Thomas smiles a few times during the review. Especially when he is describing that the car drives better than the Mk7.5 it replaces.

He also says hardware-wise one of the best cars in the segment once again. His only real criticisms are the software for the infotainment and the capacitive buttons on the steering wheel.

If you don't like the looks of the car that's fair enough, but it hardly makes it a pile of dung  :rolleyes:
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #54 on: 04 September 2020, 07:49 »
One person's pile of dung is another person's roses...
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« Reply #55 on: 04 September 2020, 09:20 »
If you don't like the looks of the car that's fair enough, but it hardly makes it a pile of dung  :rolleyes:

If you ever listen to football phone ins on the radio you’ll find a team’s biggest fans are its harshest critics and the same can be said for cars if they’re your thing.

Personally I’m very familiar with the mk8’s underpinnings having owned mk7’s for a whisker under seven years knowing the mk8 is basically a slightly tweaked version of its predecessor, so I’d not call that side of it a pile of dung, but other aspects are somewhat less impressive considering how long VW had to develop the thing. In fact the UI should be pretty spot on if VW have been fully concentrating on ID models so just had to plonk much of the tech into the “new” Golf which should be pretty developed by now rather than Beta level.  Considering they made a huge fuss about “revolution” inside.

I can fully see where Ulysses is coming from from a perspective of waiting a long time for a car that potentially had so much promise without VW having to upgrade much and then we ended up with...
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #56 on: 04 September 2020, 10:45 »
If you don't like the looks of the car that's fair enough, but it hardly makes it a pile of dung  :rolleyes:
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Personally I’m very familiar with the mk8’s underpinnings having owned mk7’s for a whisker under seven years knowing the mk8 is basically a slightly tweaked version of its predecessor, so I’d not call that side of it a pile of dung, but other aspects are somewhat less impressive considering how long VW had to develop the thing. In fact the UI should be pretty spot on if VW have been fully concentrating on ID models so just had to plonk much of the tech into the “new” Golf which should be pretty developed by now rather than Beta level.  Considering they made a huge fuss about “revolution” inside.

Looking at the ID3’s UI, to me the screen looks identical to the one in the mk8 Golf, with the same heating and volume controls beneath the screen. So maybe VW have just plonked the ID3 tech into the mk8 Golf.

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #57 on: 04 September 2020, 11:55 »
If you don't like the looks of the car that's fair enough, but it hardly makes it a pile of dung  :rolleyes:
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Personally I’m very familiar with the mk8’s underpinnings having owned mk7’s for a whisker under seven years knowing the mk8 is basically a slightly tweaked version of its predecessor, so I’d not call that side of it a pile of dung, but other aspects are somewhat less impressive considering how long VW had to develop the thing. In fact the UI should be pretty spot on if VW have been fully concentrating on ID models so just had to plonk much of the tech into the “new” Golf which should be pretty developed by now rather than Beta level.  Considering they made a huge fuss about “revolution” inside.

Looking at the ID3’s UI, to me the screen looks identical to the one in the mk8 Golf, with the same heating and volume controls beneath the screen. So maybe VW have just plonked the ID3 tech into the mk8 Golf.



Not quite. They're similar, but the ID3 doesn't have a digital cockpit to power.
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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #58 on: 04 September 2020, 12:01 »
If you don't like the looks of the car that's fair enough, but it hardly makes it a pile of dung  :rolleyes:

If you ever listen to football phone ins on the radio you’ll find a team’s biggest fans are its harshest critics and the same can be said for cars if they’re your thing.

Personally I’m very familiar with the mk8’s underpinnings having owned mk7’s for a whisker under seven years knowing the mk8 is basically a slightly tweaked version of its predecessor, so I’d not call that side of it a pile of dung, but other aspects are somewhat less impressive considering how long VW had to develop the thing. In fact the UI should be pretty spot on if VW have been fully concentrating on ID models so just had to plonk much of the tech into the “new” Golf which should be pretty developed by now rather than Beta level.  Considering they made a huge fuss about “revolution” inside.

I can fully see where Ulysses is coming from from a perspective of waiting a long time for a car that potentially had so much promise without VW having to upgrade much and then we ended up with...

The in car tech isn't as slick or as easy to operate as it should be, no doubt about that. But it does work and it is useable, even if it isn't to the standards we expect. It is also fixable, although how long that will take, or even if VW will bother remains to be seen.

But it's not as if they produced another Mk4 with a cardboard chassis and jelly suspension. It's improved over the Mk7 in many areas, just not all areas.
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Offline mike roberts

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Re: Gti Reviews
« Reply #59 on: 04 September 2020, 12:11 »
UI is largely an irrelevant worry, it could be completely overhauled by the next update. The days of being saddled with one OS version are over.

I'm not sure they're at JLR/Tesla stage of OTA updates, but hopefully they'll get there.
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