Familiar complaints in Dan Neil's WSJ review of the VW Golf R this weekend: > After a week of fun and wild-eyed frustration with the 2022 Volkswagen Golf R ...

Familiar complaints in Dan Neil's WSJ review of the VW Golf R this weekend: > After a week of fun and wild-eyed frustration with the 2022 Volkswagen Golf R ... I was ready to scold VW’s product planners. Never has so good a car been so let down by its touchscreen, software and switchgear. > But I just don’t have the heart. It’s not like the R’s deciders wanted to put a one-eyed, lowest-bidder monstrosity smack in the middle of their flagship Golf R .... But they had a number to hit, a belt to tighten, and nobody was going home until they did. > ... The VW system’s boot-up is interminable; operators must wait many long seconds in the morning before they can adjust simple things like fan speed and seat heaters. The touchscreen response is like an ATM from the 1990s. The thin horizontal sliders for volume and cabin temperature are not illuminated so they are hard to see at night. wsj.com/articles/2022-vw-golf-r-sporty-stylish-not-the-best-ux-11643317829