SUCH a small percentage of buyers choose manual gearboxes that often they’re worth more than the equivalent auto come resale time – and that’s the case with the Golf.

Always the keen driver’s choice, the German hatch icon – updated with a raft of minor changes in ‘7.5’ guise – is at its sweetest as the base 110TSI.

So if you don’t mind using one of the nicest shifters around, there is much to enjoy here. Get ready to be deeply impressed. Again.