Don’t get me wrong: Volkswagen’s ingenious mechanism to hide the reversing camera under the VW roundel and prevent it being coated in winter crud and filth is a superb idea that more of the industry ought to copy. Where VW has shot itself in the foot is by also making the flip-up badge the boot release. If you reverse into a space in a hurry and leap out to grab something from the boot, there’s a tedious delay waiting for the camera to fold away before the boot release un-jams. Sounds trifling, but in drizzle, hail or a blizzard of frowns from queueing drivers behind you in the station drop-off car park, it’s an annoyance that’d be solved with a separate boot release button.