The iPhone 3G is too fat for the VW.

The new iPhone won’t fit in the iPod dock in my car because it’s actually wider than the old iPhone. The iPod dock in my car is a pretty sizable hole that I’m supposed to put adapters in to hold in different sized iPods securely. I’m not using any of the adapters but it’s still a few mm too narrow for the 3G.

Apparently, it wouldn’t have charged anyway: