« 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 
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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