Having had the car for a few weeks now, I can say I'm generally very happy with it. A comfortable and capable cruiser with that additional punch when you need / feel like it, and with a suprisingly compliant ride in "comfort" despite riding on 20" 35 profile tyres. Not too bad in Sport either on a decent road surface.
Three things have presented themselves as irritations though: the CC controls, the A/C controls, amd the drive mode settings.
With the CC, I find the VW/SEAT implementation using switches crammed on to the end of the lights stalk a real pain, and far, far more difficult (not least because I rarely use them and they're hidden by the wheel rim) to use that the Audi implementation which uses a third stalk, up/down for +/-, push/pull for cancel/resume. That I never had to think about. This is one reason why I'll be getting ACC retrofitted at some point si I can leave it switched on on the occasions I want to use it. Cue a few days away in my wifes home county of Yorkshire to combine business with pleasure.
With the A/C / seat heating controls, I find myself hunting for the right button to press, partly due to their position low down on the console compared to the driver, partly because of the lack of daytime illumination on the switches, and partly the fact that they're not particlularly well differentiated, presenting an almost flush surface. Again, for whatever reason, I found the Audi controls (I had A6, A4 and S3 before this car) fell much more readily to hand. Nothing I can do about that though.
And finally the drive mode settings, these are just that bit less tuneable than in the S3, which had settings for steering, throttle, engine, gearbox and suspension. And you could select "dynamic" for each of those (quicker, heavier steering, faster throttle response, quicker but less smooth shifts etc.), but the gearbox always stayed in D, rather than changing to S, which always had to be done manually. As a result I had enough variation that I used "individual" all the time, whereas I just leave it in "comfort" for the
Cupra, and do without the sharper steering I'd prefer as I don't want the engine/gearbox to be in "sport" all the time. Although from a little reading, it seems if I set it to "sport" but manually switch the gearbox to D that may be a compromise. Oh, and yes, the Audi retained the settings all the time, instead of defaulting to "comfort" (but leaving the light on the centre console knob where you left it) like the
Cupra does.
ETA: It seems that it's only the engine/gearbox that defaults back to "comfort", other settings stay the same (ie, individual/sport/
cupra), so maybe I'll experimat a bit more.