A funny thing happened on the way to diesel emissions scandal—Volkswagen still sells cars. There are no diesels until they get a clean bill of health, but as VW must rely solely on gas-fired sales in the US right now, the Golf TSI SEL sits squarely in the middle of their lineup globally. Through some recent updates, VW’s improved its latest edition. We cohabitated the new Golf TSI for a week and agreed to not even bring up the “d” word.

The biggest Golf changes for this year are on the inside. The most immediately apparent is a new 5-inch display on the base model and a 6.5-inch display on all other trim levels. Running VW’s Modular Infotainment Platform II (MIB II), it supports Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and MirrorLink. More importantly, this display looks and works much better than the previous infotainment system, which took forever to respond to menu selections.

Beyond MIB II, the car’s buttons are logically placed, switchgear is vastly better, and the standard seats offer above-average support and bolstering. The steering wheel and gauges even exude greater-than-VW quality—everything you touch inside would be equally at home in a BMW or Audi.