Golf Mk8 on the way 2019

[Hammersticks]

Instead of adding more tech, too bad it didn’t say “VW is not only concentrating on performance in the MK8, but is also heavily focused on addressing “FCR” (f@*&ing creaks and rattles) that has so plagued these lovely little German dynamos for years.”


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[zimmie2652]

This is a joke right? That looks awful all around.

 

[adam1991]

FCR. I'm going to use that instead of NVH from now on.

 

[TheGreekFreak]

I hope it looks like that. MK7s will hold their value better lol whoever came up with that rendering should get their eyes checked.

The MK7.5 brought some real nice higher end touches to the MK7 (gauges, headlights, taillights, infotainment system, etc.) that brought it closer to a base Audi. This would be a big step back in the styling department.

 

[Urlik]

Pretty sure its a mock up too. Those pics have been floating around the web for a while now.

Not even a mock-up, just some artist's guess.

 

[ElectricEye]

Not even a mock-up, just some artist's guess.

^^ Yes, this.^^
In my experience VW does not release images of its cars before production.
There was a lot of this going around about the MK7 before its release.
All of the renderings turned out to be pretty far off of the mark.

 

[translux]

Nice power increase-GTI 250hp & R 350hp

 

[Unreal1]

Looks like the cg is lower, or is it just the angle of the photos?

 

[Chogokin]

Looks like the cg is lower, or is it just the angle of the photos?

They're not even a real car. Photoshopped by someone on the internet.

 

[The Fed]

why do car companies feel the need to make headlights stretch back on the fenders... hate that look.

Might as buy a crappy Maxima.

 

[The Fed]

I'll trade mine for it, not sure about the two tone lower side skirt bit

Body side molding?

 

[The Fed]

I...like it. I even like the color shown here, though I usually loathe yellows. There is one shot of what looks like some sort of R version, in a different color and with two doors, in the photos in that linked article, too.

While I am happy about the planned power boosts for the GTI and R, though as usual it's unclear what if any of this will wind up here, I'm a little nervous about the whole "always online" connectivity stuff the VW suits like to go on and on about. In addition to my general lack of enthusiasm for having my car become an extension of my phone, I do worry that a manual transmission won't be part of the master plan when everything is digital, in the cloud, talking to each other, and interconnected.

But, eh, we'll see.

Time to find the CAR-NET antenna and unplug it. While you're at it, find the Event Data Recorder and unplug that too. I'm surprised someone doesn't have the instructions posted.

 

[TheWombat]

I can pretty much guarantee you that eventually it will be impossible to disconnect your car from the hive mind. Given that data distribution, from cars to some central collector and between cars as well, is essential for autonomous operation or even the integration of autonomous and non-autonomous cars, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will engineer cars (by choice or under legal mandate) so that attempts to disable such communication will either immobilize the car, alert authorities, or both.

It is very weird, though perhaps inevitable, that the coming eradication of personal auto use and ownership, and pleasure driving, is being driven by an unholy alliance of new left machine haters and Neo-Liberal right-wing robber barons.

 

[ElectricEye]

Might as buy a crappy Maxima.

There's no indication that VW intends to go the extended headlight trend.
Look at the recent Jetta, Tiguan, and Atlas.
The MK8 is not going to stray too far from that design language.

 

[ElectricEye]

I can pretty much guarantee you that eventually it will be impossible to disconnect your car from the hive mind. Given that data distribution, from cars to some central collector and between cars as well, is essential for autonomous operation or even the integration of autonomous and non-autonomous cars, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will engineer cars (by choice or under legal mandate) so that attempts to disable such communication will either immobilize the car, alert authorities, or both.

It is very weird, though perhaps inevitable, that the coming eradication of personal auto use and ownership, and pleasure driving, is being driven by an unholy alliance of new left machine haters and Neo-Liberal right-wing robber barons.

I wish I didn't agree with this.