Given its status as the best-selling car in Europe and its leadership of the compact hatchback class, when Volkswagen updates the Golf, you take note. When we reviewed the then new Golf 7 back in 2013 it gained a coveted full-marks score.

“So why are you showing us the same old Golf 7 that’s been around over four years,” you’re probably thinking. Well, we’re not. Welcome to the facelift. This is Golf 7.5, if you will. It tides us over until the completely new Golf 8 arrives in a couple of years.

Rather like Porsche with the 911, updating the Golf is very much about evolution, not revolution. So the reason you’re seeing very little difference in the photos top of page is that VW’s only changed the wheel design, added some new colours, upgraded the lighting technology and re-profiled the bumpers. Is that a bad thing? Not really, the Golf in its Mk7 format is a perfectly well resolved, pleasing piece of design which — whether you think it’s a dull default or not — it’s hard to criticise in objective design terms.
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