The eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI, which first launched in 2020, has been due for a mid-cycle refresh. VW actually unveiled the refreshed Mk8 ... 19-inch wheels, real carbon fiber interior ...

Mk7 GTI steering wheel—Bring back the buttons! Every Volkswagen that followed the Mk8 GTI continued the trend and even exacerbated it in some cases (see: ID.4 rear window switches). However ...

That's nothing a little refresh can't fix, though, and the MK8.5 GTI does indeed now have physical buttons on the steering wheel. The center volume and temperature controls are still touch sliders ...

And from first glance at this camouflaged Mk8.5 GTI, it would seem as though Volkswagen ... Yep, those are actual, physical buttons on the steering wheel rather than those shoddy haptic touch ...

Lithe and with a keen front end the Clubsport’s front-drive setup injects some much needed life into the Mk8 ... GTI Clubsport has now gone without those infuriating touch-sensitive steering ...