MKX
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- Las Vegas/Phoenix
I love the MK7 GTI. I think VW got a lot of things right, and I very well may buy one. But let's talk about the steering wheel. We all know and love the MK6 steering wheel:
It's a thing of beauty and I thought it would be hard to replace. Apparently it was too hard to replace and now this is what we're working with:
Gone is the perforated leather, deep sculpting, and organized/clean/geometric/symmetrical button layout from the MK6.
I will concede that the MK7 wheel looks alright from this angle:
It really shows how thick the rim is. Makes me think of the M3 wheel. The 3 aluminum spokes look great and the depth adds a cool dimension. But those buttons look so cheap and the whole thing doesn't look as special, nor aggressive as the last one did.
This MK7 GTI wheel is almost the same as what they put in the Beetle, but hell even that thing has the nice MK6 style buttons:
So here's to hoping they change it for the final production version or it looks a lot better in person and grows on us. How do you guys feel about it?
It's a thing of beauty and I thought it would be hard to replace. Apparently it was too hard to replace and now this is what we're working with:
Gone is the perforated leather, deep sculpting, and organized/clean/geometric/symmetrical button layout from the MK6.
I will concede that the MK7 wheel looks alright from this angle:
It really shows how thick the rim is. Makes me think of the M3 wheel. The 3 aluminum spokes look great and the depth adds a cool dimension. But those buttons look so cheap and the whole thing doesn't look as special, nor aggressive as the last one did.
This MK7 GTI wheel is almost the same as what they put in the Beetle, but hell even that thing has the nice MK6 style buttons:
So here's to hoping they change it for the final production version or it looks a lot better in person and grows on us. How do you guys feel about it?
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