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It is telling of course that the chief joy of getting back in the Mk7 Golf GTI is just sitting in it, gleefully operating the major controls. Believe it or not, the car was not exactly feted for its canny layout of dials and switchgear in its day; it was just widely acknowledged that Volkswagen had landed on an ergonomically pleasing way of doing things, which meant that people didn’t object to spending untold hours behind the wheel.
The drawbacks of revolution are exemplified by the Mk8’s now infamous interior choices. Much like ripping out someone’s front room, you better be sure that what you’re replacing it with is of a superior standard. Sadly, its maker fell at both qualitative hurdles: the current model is not just less satisfying to interact with thanks to its clunky infotainment and weirdly haphazard switchgear, it is also less pleasing to look at.
Initially, ‘Performance’ was there to distinguish the more powerful GTI from an entry-level model that Volkswagen eventually binned off in 2018. By then it had earned a modest upgrade to 230hp, while the Performance trim ended its life with 245hp . Some regarded the TCR as a late-in-life attempt to return the Golf to the top of the hot hatch pecking order after more than one rival - Hyundai among them - deliberately sought to outgun the GTI on paper.
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