Placed your order yet Dave?
I just been looking at some pictures on the Autocar website of the new Mk 7 Golf released this evening at an event in Berlin. I must admit I prefer the interior styling to that of the new A3. Perhaps life will go full circle and I shall end up with another Golf after owning my last one (a VR6) in 1998 before I started buying an A3s.
With the new Golf it also seems to depend on which pictures you look at. Some show quite a lot of aluminium on the fascia, centre console and on the door trims, other so all this in black. It may well be different trim options or just different models. No doubt all will be revealed when the usual Prices and Specification brochures are released for the UK models. Fortunately I have at least another 2-3 years before I will have to make up my mine. It will also be interesting to see Skoda do with the trim on the new Octavia.
A friend of mine has just bought a new VRS Octy and I was really surprised how good it is. The interior had a decent layout / was solid / inoffensive (by comparison to say the new SEAT's), and it drove much better than the average Audi ride-wise.
I saw the new 8V at Le Mans this year and it looked better in the flesh than in the pictures, but like Dave, I'm not convinced that I'd jump ship for a new one when my S3 is less than a year old. Be interesting to see the S3 8V at Paris to get a sense of whether Audi have injected any of the magic back into the old girl (visually) that has been lacking since 8L. Old S was notably different from the 1.8T, the S3 8P was way too close to S-Line in styling for my liking. The quad pipes on the 8V will help, but it needs more visually focused aggression!
As I said, each to their own and, if you prefer the interior of the Golf then I have no problem with that at all. I reserve the right to disagree with you though
One thing I've heard a lot of people mention with Audis of late is why don't they use touch-screens like a lot of other manufacturers. Frankly I'm glad they don't. Judging by the state the screens of my iPhone and iPad get into and how I'm always feeling the need to clean them, having fingerprints all over the MMI screen would drive me insane.
With the new Golf it also seems to depend on which pictures you look at. Some show quite a lot of aluminium on the fascia, centre console and on the door trims, other so all this in black.....
Better than the previous version (an I never thought a good enough interior is a loaded £40k Mk6 Golf R), but I do dislike VW clocks. Like the blue glow, but not the dial or typeface.
Also like the way that the dash is angled towards driver rather than flat. Ford did this on the Sierra back in 1981 and a few others took it forward but then it seemed to fall by the wayside. Glad to see it back.
VW discontinued the blue glow clocks in the Golf mk6. The mk6 has white clocks with red needles, they kept the blue glow in the radio/track display though.
Didn't even notice that when I went to see an R (was during the day). Always liked the fact they had done something different with the blue.