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Owners push back hard on the infotainment and haptic-control criticism

Volkswagen GTI (Mk8) · interior

The single loudest theme in the corpus: actual Mk8 owners repeatedly say the touchscreen and capacitive controls are a non-issue that journalists blew out of proportion, with adaptation typically taking days to weeks. Several note the S and 40th trims keep physical volume/tuning knobs, sidestepping the sliders reviewers hated most.