After 7 years of Octavia VRS DSGs I made a foolish mistake in February and switched to a Golf mk8 1.5 manual.
I've tried to adapt to it but ultimately can't stand the gearbox and having just had two weeks back in an auto hire car on holiday am looking to get back into a DSG and with a bigger boot.

I saw a lovely Karoq Sportline in Nardo Grey whilst I was away and am currently thinking along those lines. I'd be looking at a used car, likely 2022/23.

I will of course have a good read through here, but if you have any standout must haves or avoids to call out, please do so.
I want a bigger boot than the Golf (521L vs 381L ✅), DSG and the ability to add a towbar bike mount - the Octavia's were a bit fussy on this, is the towbar an easy retrofit on the Karoq if need be?

Pan roofs look nice, but I seem to remember reports of other VAG ones squeaking, creaking and leaking?

The Golf's tech is punching above it's weight, it regularly warns me of imaginary lane creep and collisions, plus the whole system crashes from time to time, needing a restart to clear - My Octavia's were much better, any points of note with the Karoq?

As I say, I will have a good look around on here, but would really appreciate early warning of any showstoppers, highlights or other thoughts.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by dan245
typo

Having owned two Sportlines and driven a few others, I take the view that the two best options are:

- Dynamic Chassis Control. It makes a real contribution to taming the appalling road surfaces that are so common now;

- LED matrix headlights. Magical technology at its best. All headlights should be like this and one day maybe they all will be.