I have almost 9k miles on my R, the system takes away the vast majority of the ‘buttons’ you have to press because it does everything automatically. Heated seats, vented seats, heated steering wheel, all come on by themselves based on temperature, the ‘auto’ function for the HVAC works amazing, I think i’ve actually…

Why does there need to be a more tuned version of the RS5? Just make the RS the absolute best it can be and price by damned.

Yeah, that was sort of my point. They have taken the need to actually hit the buttons away, so it’s not as big a deal. The fact that the car is smart enough to know when I need the heaters/vents on is awesome.

The could afford to remove the physical buttons because they tried to make it so you never have a need to hit…

Things I didn’t know I needed until I got my R, and will never own a car without again:

- Heated steering wheel
- Vented Seats.

I’m sort of biased I guess? But I went from an 18' 7.5GTI to a 22' R, and I love the R as a daily.

You are correct, but mines a DCT because my knees are held together with chewing gum and paper mache currently.

Type R - 315/310 FWD

I went from a 7.5 GTI to a 8 R, the UI is a non-issue to me. It’s different, as with all new things, took me 2 weeks to get used to, and the way they have it set up, it takes fewer buttons to do things so you’re using it less.

Have you actually driven one?

Honest question, have you actually driven one and used the controls? It’s really a non issue. I have almost 7k miles on my R.

Really the only piano black is directly around the screen and the digital dash. The rest of the plastic on the center console and the sides is a matte finish that is actually really nice and doesn’t show fingerprints that much. There’s a nice patterned plastic that runs above the vents which doesn’t show anything and…

From what I’ve dealt with so far it works with any sort of glove, but I find myself not wearing gloves because of the heated steering wheel.

Yes, can fully disable through the UI, I made a shortcut for mine so it's less of a effort to get to the button. 

In my opinion, and I have 5000 miles on mine, the UI issues were blown away out of proportion. Took me one week to get used to it.

Heated Steering wheel... Didn’t know I needed it until I had it.

Good to hear. I do agree about the Q7 series, it’s showing it’s age and doesn’t blend well with their other new rollouts.

I love me some SQ8 RSQ8, but damn they are pricey...

I don’t know why, I’m just so unimpressed with the Acura’s recently? Maybe I need to drive one? Eh.

From a size perspective the MDX is bigger than the SQ5 and smaller than the SQ7, but for a starting price of 10k less, is the SQ5 the better option?

Heck, you can max out an SQ5 for 67k, the starting price for the MDX...and I like the Audi interiors better anyway.

Let me walk you through VW’s lineup.........

I speak for all 5,348,000 people in the US (36.7% of all vehicles) who bought Sedans in 2021 when I say...

BRING ON THE ELECTRIC SEDANS!!! WOOOOOO!!!

I’m going with... CR-V.