Volkswagen Golf GTI MK8.5 Brings Back Buttons, Adds ChatGPT

Volkswagen Golf GTI MK8.5 was teased at CES 2024, still camoflaged but with the interior revealed. Volkswagen may have moved away from physical buttons on the interior of the current Golf, but now it looks like the trend will be reversed. At the Consumer Electronics Show 2024 in Las Vegas, the company displayed the facelifted MK8 Golf GTI. The car was still wrapped in minimal camouflage, but you could see the interior and this is where we notice some pretty big changes. The first is the integration of ChatGPT into the vehicle's IDA voice assistant. It's clear Volkswagen want to be perceived as a more tech-forward company and so they're putting 2023's headline-grabbing piece of tech as the "virtual centrepiece" of the vehicle. ChatGPT is also coming to other Volkswagen models, including most of their electric vehicle line-up (the ID.Buzz wasn't mentioned), the new Tiguan and the new Pa...