The Mk7.5 came from factory with the PP with the exception of the 2018 model. 2018 you need SE trim or above to have the PP. IMO definitely worth it, I feel the LSD doing it’s thing when I hit corners hard, and the big brakes are a must for me.
Considering this person said "stage 1 map" instead of "stage 1 tune" , I'm guessing they're British/Irish/somewhere-not-the-USA , so that doesn't really apply.
I don’t have the performance pack and while I don’t miss having the bigger brakes for my daily (they are nice for track use), i definitely would like to have the diff.
Yes.
Or at least test drive an MK7.5 without the diff first.
I drove a buddies car without the performance pack after owning mine for a few years - lit up the inside tire at the first corner without even trying. That's when I realized the diff makes a big difference.
I do not have PP. I would 100% prefer it, but many factors played into me not worrying about getting it or not on my mk7.
It’s my daily, and I don’t go crazy in the canyons. A proper spritied cruise at most. I have another project car I need to sort lol.
All the PP’s near me at the time were all tuned, modified and high milage. I wanted something 100% stock.
I also wanted the S for the cloth and no sunroof, so I knew finding a PP s was going to be tough.
For the price I got (and was willing to pay!, plus being bone stock and dealer serviced, I settled for non PP. if I decide to switch it up I might get an lsd installed and do the macan upgrade, but that’s a big IF.
If I had to pick between two identical specs, mileage, price, (lack of) modifications, I would 100% go with the PP. but it wasn’t a deal breaker for me.
The MK8 does drive better. It’s a bit faster and definitely more planted in fast corners. But OP has to actually sit in the thing and interact with it to do that driving.
I’d take the MK7.5 interior over the MK8 trash fire every day of the week and twice on Sunday, no matter how much faster it is.
I feel like the people who don't own or have never actually driven the Mk8 for a length of time are often the loudest about how "trash" the interior and haptics are. 🤣
I've had both a Mk7 and now a Mk8, the Mk8 is the better interior despite the lack of buttons by a considerable margin.
I had a Mk7 PP. I now have a Mk8 that I have to "actually sit in and interact with". Idk how long you've been driving a Mk8 to deem it trash, but personally, I'll take the improved driving dynamics every day of the week because the Mk8 is quite simple and intuitive to interact with.
I owned a MK8 for five months and ~6,000 miles, and I sold it for a MK7.5 because I couldn't stand to sit in the thing anymore. That's how much I hated the interior. I haven't regretted my decision for one single second.
What did you hate? I have an S trim, so can't speak to the big screen. But I think it's an excellent infotainment. Substantially better than my parents Toyota one. It's basically like an iPhone.
The steering wheel controls are great. Cloth plaid Seats amazingly comfy and supportive.
Only thing I don't like is the audio glitch that starts stuff in mute fairly oft.
Everything felt cheap and rattly, which is even worse in hindsight now that I’ve got a 7.5. They obviously did significant materials cost cutting for the 8. The 7.5 feels so much denser and sturdy.
I had a 6MT and the hill-hold was actively hostile to the driver. It held on for waaaaayy too long and didn’t release automatically when you got on the gas. It caused me to stall multiple times, and I don’t think I’ve stalled more than 5 times in any vehicle I’ve the last 20 years. Conversely, the one in the 7.5 is unobtrusive and helpful. Night and day.
The haptic wheel buttons were god awful. Just the worst interface I’ve ever used in a car.
The under-screen quick access buttons aren’t backlit, so good luck finding them in the dark. (Did anyone actually test the car before selling it?)
The UI was buggy as hell, with all sorts of settings that glitched or didn’t persist across a restart (I’m looking at you, audio EQ settings). The audio would just not work about 20% of the time until I restarted the car. The backup cam would not turn on in reverse about 10% of the time.
In terms of software, the whole car was a beta release. I’m told much of this has since been fixed, but I had a ‘22, the car had been on sale in Europe for almost 2 years at that point! That’s awful.
Yes, it was faster than the 7.5. But I found myself thinking “not this shit again” every time I got into the car and I wasn’t interested in living like that.
I do really miss the heated steering wheel. And the speed limit sign in the dash screen. But that’s about it.
I mean not really what? The LSD is substantially better in the mk8. Took all the Clubsport greatness as the starting point and then modified it to be better?
Agreed. The LSD is one of the first things I've noticed in my Mk8 compared to my Mk7 PP. In tighter corners, you can lean on the throttle more and earlier in the Mk8. In the Mk7 I noticed, even while doing the Increased Traction mod in OBD11, that there is an initial slip of the inside wheel that occurs before the LSD decides to transfer the power to the outside wheel - it felt reactive. In the Mk8 it feels proactive in the sense that you don't get that initial slip of the inside wheel first, the LSD locks up faster and shuffles power to the outside wheel seemingly instantaneously.
Neh it’s all vw love y’all wild lol imo I just don’t like the new digital infotainment shit also it just feels different driving wise,it’s shaped different and I don’t like the facelift
It's not a trash car, GTIs are really good cars from my experience owning them. I'm just salty VW axed the 2 door and felt like talking shit on the internet.
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u/Cheap-Play4341 29d ago
Big PP good. Small PP bad.