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Tech filters into Volkswagen’s hatch favourite
Shiny new four-cylinder engine, new touchscreens and more refinement for Volkswagen’s strongest seller, writes Michael Taylor
While the Golf wasn’t in great need of an overhaul, the "Mark 7.5" version of the biggest-selling Volkswagen is still a welcome step forward. Besides a new 1.5l motor, there are three different multimedia solutions, a digital virtual cockpit and refinements of the same Golfness that kept it at the top of the small hatch tree. There was a time when a certain slice of society got its jollies from levering badges off Volkswagen grilles to use as necklace adornments. Try that today and you’ll get caught up in a bunch of wires, cables and computers because the VW logo in the centre of the facelifted Golf 7’s grille does double duty as its forward-facing radar. There seems to be no end to the luxury market tech that has found its way to the king of the class-crossing default option for the SUV stop-outs around the world. Its top-end multimedia system, which includes an enormous 9.2-inch glass touchscreen, gets gesture control (in addition to voice control, the steering wheel buttons and o...
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