New MK7 Golf Regular VS electronic handbrake

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2.2TDI

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I'm curious, I saw the new MK7 Golf GTI at the Toronto autoshow in February and it had an electronic handbrake. I saw the same car today at a different autoshow, but this gti had a normal handbrake lever... I'm a bit confused, this one was made in Mexico, do the north american models get a normal handbrake vs europe? Why would they do this?

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'sposedly the US market gets a conventional lever handbrake instead of the Euro-model electric one. But no one knows until they roll them off the trucks at the dealer.
 
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The one I looked at during the Minneapolis Auto Show this winter had an electronic one - so what Graham said about rolling them off the trucks at the dealer rings true.
 
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I have read that North America would get the mechanical lever (can't remember the source), and thank God for that!

VW messes up just about every other "electronically-actuated" anything (ASV, exhaust flap, sunroof, throttles in the gassers...). A cable is just perfect, thanks! As well, the good ole-fashioned type still allows for some *ahem* creative maneuvers, which the electronic system will not, even when it is working.
 
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nkgagne said:
I have read that North America would get the mechanical lever (can't remember the source), and thank God for that!

VW messes up just about every other "electronically-actuated" anything (ASV, exhaust flap, sunroof, throttles in the gassers...). A cable is just perfect, thanks! As well, the good ole-fashioned type still allows for some *ahem* creative maneuvers, which the electronic system will not, even when it is working.
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Indeed, it does allow for a more "fun" factor :) My only question is, when the car is manufactured, since it was designed originally with the electronic handbrake, how much of a difference does it make when building the car in terms of money, redesigned, etc...
 
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I got to test drive the Mk7 golf last week, and it had the regular hand brake.
 
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Why would they over engineer the lowly hand brake, which works perfectly fine day in; day out?!
 
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