Weird analogy but ok. There were a lot of complaints by reviewers and testers, but the vast majority of actual owners don’t have issues with it. It’s a new system approach, and does take time getting used to, but that doesn’t make it inherently bad.

When I get in a car that doesn’t automatically turn seat and steering…

<hugs his mk8 R with no buttons and systems that are smart enough to turn themselves on and off automatically>

It’s tiring, but I still have to come in here and defend these. If you didn’t buy a GTI or R because of the touchscreens, all those who own them thank you. Literally took me two weeks to get used to it and so much of the system is intuitive and automatic, that it will be tough to go back to a dumb button system.

So…

I’m with you. I’ve never stopped loving them and whenever I see one, my insurance agent almost gets a call because I nearly wreck my car rubber-necking.

None, hence why I’m so sad we totaled it that same year. Had we tried that in our current Subaru Forester, we’d have broken every strut and shock... ha!

Approx. location, right near mile marker 38. But with almost 2feet of snow drifted into the ditch.

Pretty sure in the story telling of this approximately 45min later when we got to our destination, I said those exact words!

Year before our son was born we were travelling north on I-69 in Indiana just after the New Year to visit some friends. We’d had 8-9in of snow a few days before and blizzard like winds and while the roads were clear, the wind was blowing fine snow across the dark colored roads where it was freezing. Every 1/4 mile…

It was an ugly car anyway...

Here here! I firmly believe that all the hate from early reviews, which I think was mostly unwarranted, really turned people off and it was so blown out of proportion.

Ok, call it what you want, you still have to actually press the button, it’s damn near impossible to ‘accidentally’ press something unless you drive with your hand on steering wheel like a gorilla.

Just actually owning the vehicle unlike 99% of the people complaining about it, I just don’t understand the hatred...haha!

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If you don’t press the pad down, it doesn’t do anything. If you tap on the heated steering wheel button or the ‘VIEW’ button like it’s a touch screen it doesn’t do anything. None of the button on the steering where are capacitive touch except the two bottom sliders.

No they aren’t. Again, only two buttons on the entire steering where are actually capacitive, the volume slider and the station/song change slider. Every other ‘button’ on the steering where has to be physically pressed, it’s like a joystick style pad and it knows what you want by the angle it’s pressed.

I have 9000…

There are only two buttons on the entire steering wheel that are actually capacitive. I have 9000 miles on my R and i’ve mis-clicked something maybe twice.

Not all the buttons on the steering wheel are even capacitive, I honestly don’t get what the fuck everyone is complaining about. I’ve put 9000 miles on my R and I think I’ve mis-clicked something twice.

If you look at the header image photo for instance, the only thing you can activate without physically pushing is the…

Siracha does the trick. Just squirt on an ample amount and rub it around/in with a paper towel. Once it dries you can’t tell it’s there and it actually makes any weird white spots on the pumpkin look more orange!

No no, you’re correct. They aren’t confused, they just don’t want to help non-whites.... soooo.....

When you’re employed by a company involved in a giant pyramid scheme, it’s amazing NO ONE SAW IT COMING?!?!

Haha.

Insurance. Fraud.

Have you drive one? I have 9k miles on mine and I’ve ‘accidentally’ hit a button on the wheel maybe twice. Aside from the volume control, you still have to actually ‘press’ the area where the control is. The volume is the only swipe part.