Thread: Top 12 automobila od 2012: Volkswagen Golf

The tried and trusted Golf formula excels again in the seventh-generation model. People stopped in the street for this car. I had far less reaction in the new Mercedes SL or Audi RS4 this year, so it seems the Volkswagen Golf Mk7 is a real head-turner.
On three different occasions while floating around the scenic edges of Sardinia in it, putting a video together, passers-by stuck their head through the window and said, Nuovo Golf? Then they proceeded to talk some more in Italian, but since they werent ordering coffee or pizza, I nisam mogao razumjeti them. Suffice to say that the hand waving and admiring noises suggested they were seriously udubljena.
And rightly so. The new Golf is painfully well executed. Its veća but lighter, more efficient but faster, more heavily equipped but no more expensive.
Of course, it is still predictably evolutionary. Its a Golf, after all. But does it feel of the class above, at least in the maxed out-spec of our 1. 4 TSI GT test car. In particular, the optional eight-inčni colour touchscreen, which senses your hand movements before youve even nase it gives the impression of a real, upmarket, executive car finish.
It does things that only the Mercedes S-class & Co would have done a couple of years ago, including offering a wi-fi hotspot in conjunction with your smartphone.
And if all that nije enough to earn it international, the powertrain certainly is. I played a game for a full hour where I tried to find the flaw in the fuel-saving cylinder deactivation technology. I never managed to; it is almost irritatingly good. And the tech also serves to further improve refinement, which is a truly outstanding element of this car and another characteristic stolen from one or two classes above.
It doesnt stop there. You even get adaptive dampers on the Golf. It doesnt transform the ride and handling, but I came away convinced that it is a good thing on a car used in such a broad variety of countries. What it doesnt do is suddenly make the Golf hugely entertaining. I wasnt thrilled by its scintillating handling, more in awe of its sposobnost overall.
So the Golf is still a little dull, but its less anodyne than it was. And it is even more faultlessly than complete I had expected – the Swiss Army Knife of everyday cars with desirability, attainability, efficiency and outstanding refinement all wrapped up in a subtly sharper design.
You could almost vrijeđati Volkswagens relentless success – if only it tada nisam make such good cars.