VIDEO: Volkswagen Golf Mk7 – exterior walk-around and touchscreen infotainment system explored

VIDEO: Volkswagen Golf Mk7 – exterior walk-around and touchscreen infotainment system explored

We’re back from Sardinia, where the drive presentation of the seventh-gen Volkswagen Golf was held. There’s plenty of jet lag to be had following a rather relentless flight schedule (eight, in four days), so do be patient for our take on the Mk7, which we drove in both TSI and TDI forms.

Ahead of that, here’s a series of short videos captured during the drive – these include a brief video presentation highlighting what’s new in this one, as well as a 360 walkaround of the exterior (you’ll pardon the bit of shake – wasn’t easy going on the sand!).

There’s also a short clip on the car’s rear tow hook and its novel operation, and to round it off, a sampling of the new touchscreen infotainment system, which will be fitted as standard on all Golfs. It’s easily the best factory-fitted touchscreen I’ve come across in terms of operation and use.


Touchscreen media system

Video presentation

Exterior walkaround

Rear tow hook operation

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • blackBJQ on Oct 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    from this view angle, it looks same with the no-so-old mk6..

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    • Looks pretty nice but that classic tail lights just looks dated ! LED tail lights looks better !

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    • It looks like a ….. Golf. Can’t change the looks of an icon after all.

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  • When is it coming, that’s the bigger question. And the biggest question is, when is the GTi coming? And if VGM is seeing this, please throw in all the specs!

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    • Pontiac on Oct 29, 2012 at 5:32 pm

      That not the real question.

      Will it blend? Thats the biggest question

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  • Threetwentydee on Oct 29, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    How about a 1.4 twin charge with hybrid VGM? That way we can enjoy some tax cuts just like what Toyota n Honda are enjoying today….

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  • i live in Labuan this should be around rm100k here.. need work hard from now..

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  • shawal on Oct 29, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    look at the size of that screen! , this is whuts missing in the preve

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  • Ahhhh…. time to save up for the new GTi!!! With a platform that is more than 10% lighter than the last, this should be one of the best handling Golf yet.

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  • Ismail saad on Oct 29, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    Wah…features sama mcm volvo V40, ford focus 2013, new merc A class..

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  • the rear looks odd..from the rear screen down to the bumper it gets wider and wider

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  • It will be released in Singapore first quarter 2013 so should be launched here soon after

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  • Rakyat on Oct 30, 2012 at 3:00 am

    Finally, the real people’s car is here, can dump the “drive it to believe how preve con us it’s a global car” for this.

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  • Driving a golf gives more smiles per mile than any kia or hyundai.

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  • Merc=Real Euro on Oct 30, 2012 at 8:56 am

    I wonder if VW has sorted out the DSG juddering and mechatronic failure issue?. Only time will tell…

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  • Rakyat on Oct 30, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    People’s car(golf) > Global car(preve)
    ^
    crap

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  • Better value than Nissan Almari.

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