Have to agree totally shocking state of these new fitments, alignment is poor, even the colour match of the buttons is terrible, some buttons arent even flush, very disappointing & seen this on number of new cars & new parts fitted to my car, I've tried 2-3 sets of them & different cage & didnt make difference so it is the manufacturing not my car or others who have the 09 facelift, very much bad by audi on this & really starting to see some lax in design & quality by VAG at the moment.
As for Golf GTI is poor mans A3, thats stupid IMHO, the GTI styling from stock is better than the A3 externally, it has more sportier look & so does the R32, but the interior is a letdown & when I drove the GTI & R32 on test drives I was let down by the feel from this aswell, otherwise the GTI would be on my drive, the A3 I have ok I admit styling externally wasnt as good as GTI but it ticked everyother box & now I've added the better styling it makes up for the lesser GTI looks mostly, but I'll admit I do like looking at a MK5 GTI on the road.