New VW Golf VI Photos Leaked

But not a lot different from the mark IV and the mark V Golf. So guess it will look dated in a fairly short time, then?

Next time, think they should design a brand new one. Time to call back Giugiaro, who designed the original Mark 1 (and please shoot the designer of the Mark III)

I feel about this like I felt about every Golf...mild approval tempered by a few reservations, and speculation that I might get one if it ever comes in a diesel, which I quickly counter by reminding myself that it will never come in a distinctive color.

The GTI should look more interesting now...

Now you're talking about the Golf GTI, will there be a Scirocco-rivalling three-door Golf? To me there shouldn't.

If they go for the Scirocco look on the front and don't give the GTI VI a monoframe, I'll be even more happy I didn't wait, because the new front stinks. They call it "the new face of VW", but really it's a very old, unoriginal and boring face similar to Golf MkIII - headlights tied together with a few horizontal lines, wow, what a revolutionary idea! If by revolutionary you mean 1991.

I thought VW would listen to the criticism about the Mk V being too tame and unoriginal in its design, and take a few hints from the Civic and other bolder attempts from the competition, but apparently they think that a light touch-up of an already boring and 5 year old car is good enough to last another 4-5 years(!). Good luck with that. And don't get me started on the interior, which is the same as Scirocco which was taken straight from Eos whose interior was straight from the Mk V, and is found in almost identical condition inside the Skoda Octavia. How generous, how daring, how innovative...

On the up side, I do like that it no longer has a big black plastic bottom half in the rear, and that the doors are now flush. But it's nowhere near enough to take my eyes away from my GTI Mk V. Also, now that the entire thing is painted there will be nothing that distinguishes a Comfortline from a Trendline visually. And if they think sticking some honeycomb plastic in that thin slot between headlights is all it takes to make it a GTI, when the last one had a menacing monoframe, they're nuts.

If the Mk VI looked anything like the Passat CC or Tiguan, I think people would be ecstatic. But instead they went for the catastrophic narrow-black-strip-between-headlights look that shocked everyone who hoped the Scirocco would look like the IROC. I guess Audi wants monopoly on the monoframe front, which is understandable, but they're killing Volkswagen by forcing them back to their 1990's face á la Golf Mk III.

I am just waiting for the new look of the Jetta. I am also praying they bring the Scirocco to the States as well. I am really fond of that car over this one.

Don't care for the new Scirocco, it was the worst case of project study (IROC) watered down to nothing (Scirocco) in the history of cars. The end result just looks like a Golf that someone sat on, a GTI for midgets. Too lame to be a sports car, too cramped to be a useful hatchback.