The MkVI Golf has been in showrooms for less than a year, but already we have the best images yet of how its successor is shaping up.

A promotional video for VW's recently revealed L1 concept accidently revealed a groupe of designers hard at work on a clay styling model of the next-generation Golf in the background.

As with the transition from MkV to MkVI, styling changes will be subtle and evolutionary - in keeping with the firm's existing design language. Changes include a sharper snout and more steeply raked windscreen, as well as narrower headlights and more pronounced wheel arches.

Looks like every other hatchback on the market. And it's SILVER!

Looks like a Vauxhall Ashtray - my first thought anyway....

It does, but then that looks like a load of Malaysian stuff.