Funny, I'm nearly the exact opposite. I never really liked the Mk7, the slab sides just always looked wrong to me. The Mk6 looked so much better, but the dynamics of the Mk7 were leagues better, so she might be ugly, but she drives well. The Mk8 fixes it all for me. Brings the shoulder line back, cleans up overall design and flows better, again, to my eyes. The interior makes more sense to me too, center displays are higher, fixing my one dislike about the Mk7. $20 fixes the hood prop, $2k will fix the stupid oval exhaust and $3k should get me sorted on proper wheels, tires, brake fluid and the usual litany of crap I'll have to do to the substandard shifty bits, until the AP is released for the Mk8 and then I'll need a clutch too. But that's all predicated on the fact that I actually get one. 11 total in the entire country right now, no sense of when more manuals are being built, much less delivered. I may have to love ol' Slab Sides a while longer.