Thread 28578773

This is a dreadful interior for an A6. No wood trim, no sumptuous leather, no easy-to-use buttons just screens and things you have to touch to get to work. Looks like any other VW interior - they really gave up completely.

I should also mention that our test cars haven’t been perfectly reliable. We tested a PHEV before this diesel and its electronically controlled right rear door wouldn’t latch closed. I had to lash it in place with a ratchet strap to stop it from flying open into passing traffic. This diesel also had an unbuckled phantom passenger on the rear seats that tripped the weight sensor and caused the dashboard to bong at me. I’m sure a software update would fix these issues, but it’s disappointing to see in such an expensive car.

>>28578773 (OP)
Audi ACorolla

>>28578773 (OP)
>caring about rentals

>>28578823
I dunno if this is rental - maybe more like company car lease in Europe. But even then, jesus how the mighty have fallen. And it's not cheap either it's like 60-70thousands pounds so maybe more like 70-80 thousand American dollars for -- ????

>>28578829
Who cares, vws are GAY as FUCK kekbmaoooo0o0oo00o0o0o0o

>>28578832
Audi had actually nice interiors 15-20 years ago.
It's ok to be gay, as well.

>>28578773 (OP)
>>28578803
feature bloat just means more things to go wrong
all the fiddly new 'safety features' that do nothing for safety that manufacturers include to meet their good goy scores with globohomo are especial offenders
the worst thing is that so many of them are filled with people who don't even care to do a good job and make things right anyways
but they're just following the lead from the top aren't they?
fish rot from the head first, and if the presently incumbent underlords have a cultured antipathy to civilization, should anyone be surprised that everyone else follows their lead?

>>28578773 (OP)
it's a shame nobody makes cars anymore
guess I'll just have to drive aging beaters until they build cars again

>>28578773 (OP)
oops you got your picture backwards, here I fixed it <3

>>28578971
no, it still looks shitty

>>28578773 (OP)
wood trim is for tasteless old money inbred faggots, that interior is gnarly for other reasons however, tablets especially

>>28578979
I was a teen and testing cars with my dad years and years ago, and we were testing an A6 - and I told the salesperson that I didn't understand why you would have wood inside a car - lol - I still cringe internally at that one - but now I appreciate it.
I mean a leather dash would be fine - but there's no leather or wood - it's all bargain basement plastics and synthetics.

>>28578981
it always felt gaudy af to me especially in fake luxury cars like audi or bmw, also quality wise some of the merc/bmw interiors in the 2000s were beyond appaling and they still had wood trim, I feel like audi were mostly solid or I cant remember anything particularly nasty like the w204 or e90

>>28578985
appalling*

Everything has been streamlined to increase profit

>>28578803
>should also mention that our test cars haven’t been perfectly reliable
Sounds like the Tiguan PHEV the Finnish motorists' association magazine has been trying out.
It had a surprising number of issues before it even hit 10,000 km. Drained the 12 V battery overnight multiple times. Something near the transmission cracked and leaked the coolant. On one drive, it made a loud unexplained bang and went into limp mode. Their most recent update a few weeks ago was that all the active driver aids/safeties went nuts, warning lights started blinking and the car started announcing system malfunctions with loud warning sounds every few minutes, making the rest of the trip hell. The next day everything seemed fine.
The dealer service's suggestion for some of the issues was basically watchful waiting, like it was some kind of chronically sick but currently mostly asymptomatic patient.

Sounds like pretty much everything on these new VAG platforms has had a lot of issues.
These cars aren't terrible when they work, and even their smallest vehicles tend to be more refined than a Toyota or a chink car, but I'm not quite sure if I'd want to own one.

>>28579213
new can be good, it's their specific approach that sucks

Everytime you complain they add another screen

Other than the screen bullshit it doesn't look bad. I almost prefer it without fake leather and fake wood.

>>28580686
then I guess the cars will become all screens
the steering wheel will be a screen
the windows will just be screens
>>28580687
every inch of the interior should be covered with sumptuous real leather

The problems run deeper than that. Every single one of these comes with incredibly low profile tyres. The wheels are gigantic, because of the raised belt line, and the suspension is rock solid because people want it to feel “sporty”. The range of engines is pathetic. The seats are narrow and hard and so are the bolsters. Visibility is down with every generation. I don’t even think you can get clear glass on them anymore

All of this is because this is what the average person buying them wants. They want the smallest, harshest engine because their brains are twisted on the pursuit of MPG. They don’t care about the ride or handling. They want the car to endlessly bing and bong at them. It’s what they want so let them have it

>>28578773 (OP)
This would look much cooler with contrasting colours. It's a sharp, futuristic design thats lost in a sea of monotone. Does it have cringy RGB lighting at night?

>>28580704
I read old car magazine reviews from the 80s and 90s and cry at how much more comfortable the seats looked.

>>28580704
>Every single one of these comes with incredibly low profile tyres. The wheels are gigantic
welp, today i was a bit retarded and took a turn too soon, ended up smacking the back left wheel against the curb and scratching/gouging the alloy. had been thinking about replacing these 19s with 16s for quite a while now but I think this is as good an excuse as any to sell the set and get some cheap steelies

>>28580753
If the car came with 19"s then smaller diameter wheels might not clear the front brakes.

>>28580760
i thought that too but there's actually a decent amount of clearance between the caliper and the inside of the wheel. then i found a thread where one guy with a v6 (same model as mine) fit 16s on theirs when they swapped to winter tyres with no issues.

>>28578773 (OP)
I was in one and it’s actually pretty nice and feels solid to interact with. A lot of overhype about the look of the interior.

The exterior is ugly and the drive train is super complicated. The interior is honestly not a problem

>>28578997
Be grateful it's a nice blue and not that horrible blinding RETARD BLUE they put on every damn car as the one non-grayscale

>>28580729
Got myself an older car, late 70's lincoln versailles, for cheap
I expected to feel smug; scotch-drinking, jazz-listening, linen-wearingly smug, but no. Instead I was met with a feeling of... sadness?
There I sat in a car ridiculed for being a re-skin of a re-skin, for being slow, for being ugly and unreliable. What I got was a car more reliable, more comfortable, better put together, and more satisfying to drive than quite literally anything made in the past ~20 years. Even the damn warranty pamphlet has more soul than the entirety of the mainstream automotive landscape. Of course, neither the car, nor the pamphlet, will ever be made again.
This car sucks, and yet, it's glorious. It was supposed to be a not-quite-beater, cheap and something I wouldnt feel bad about driving and throwing shit in, but I think I love it

>>28578971
Why is it on the wrong side?

>>28578773 (OP)
Audi:
>WE HYUNDAI NOW

>>28578773 (OP)
cloth on high end cars is great imo
that passenger only screen tickles my autism, though, and not in a good way

Its gone down in quality alot this gen but it started going to shit even in the previous one with huge piano black trims right in your face and touchscreening everything

Even the 0.02% of cars that got optioned with wood you STILL can't get rid of the piano black and can't see the wood anyway

>>28578773 (OP)
The future is bleak

>>28581186
this was where it started to go wrong

>>28581190
at least it's not electric *yet*

>>28581726
My car has knobs and switches I hope It'll last until used cars start to have knobs and switches again. That is my plan.

>>28581186
Yeah this is horrible. The actual placement of things is actually pretty good. I like the digital gauge cluster as well. Just the materials are so gross. All the shiny black plastic

>>28578773 (OP)
>Looks like any other VW interior
I was honestly hoping that Audi would be the one company to blend screenshit in well if it was here to stay. The A6 had a good way to make it look like it was all supposed to be there and it worked well. The one VW vehicle I really liked was the Jetta, since it had a screen, and some touch bullshit, but it had physical climate control and it was blended into the dash. This tacked-on vertical screen bullshit is just a recipe for glare. Notably, the previous digital dash clusters they had were matte and had a hood over them. I don't know what Audi is doing, but the S6 I'm working on buying is going to be the last Audi I buy for a while.

The name of the game is to appear you're sustainable so you can no longer use real wood veneer or real leather - only oil derived synthetic fabrics and totally-not-vinyls. The entire interior looks like low pile polyester/fleece.

>>28578773 (OP)
>Make the shape of the passenger's screen not square to blend in some sort of design concept
>Screen is still a rectangle
>It's also the navigation screen all the way on the opposite side of the car's interior
And what the FUCK is that glare on the IP screen? Are these fuckers dumb?

>>28583982
>have to be "sustainable"
>can't use sustainable materials like wood and animal products
>instead use infinity plastic
>also "vegan leather" which means vinyl but it's thin and falls apart before the lease is up
>also the interior is 110% black and looks suffocatingly manmade
Fuck this bullshit

>>28578979


Woods are an ideal interior material. High strength to weight ratios, insulates sound and temperature, damps vibrations, will not degrade from heat or sunlight, commercial species as cheap or cheaper than the cheapest plastics, good looking aesthetics that satisfy and elevate the spirit.

audi interiors peaked with the old a8 - zero piano black, disappearing screen, buttons everywhere

prefacelift q7 maybe as well

>>28584037
Ever see the travesty of modern home interior design and furnishings? That's what the interior looks like.

>>28583969
>2019 Volkswagen Jetta
That previous-gen VW infotainment thing blended into the dash was actually pretty decent. Way ahead of anything you could find in a Toyota or something.
Besides Golfs and Jettas, I think they also used that in some Skoda and SEAT cars. Audi often has slightly more custom parts.

This is what the current Golf looks like, after the mid-gen upgrade that upgraded the steering wheel by going back to its Golf 7 design. Still looks like a Chinese plastic city car..
The older style wheel is definitely an upgrade from the glossy touch button shit that they used for a while, but it does look a bit out of place.

>>28578773 (OP)
>plastic
>cloth
>piano black
>platsicchrome
Kek, looks like a fucking hyundai.

>>28584116
>will not degrade from heat or sunlight
Kek lol lmao
Everything else Tru but this is BS

>>28578773 (OP)
It's not surprising that young rich people don't have the same tastes as rich p people 30 years ago. Have you seen a modern luxury home? They look nothing like luxury homes in the past. No one wants to live in a house or drive a car that looks like the same one their lame parents had 30 years ago. They love simple, black and white, shiny, flat, right angles. They don't want plush leather and wood and an analog clock.

>>28584188
They should have kept the aluminum to emphasize that the A8 is all aluminum and the A4 and A6 are mostly aluminum. They did that for the mirrors at one point but for whatever reason they stopped.

>>28578773 (OP)
>>28578971
>designated "backseat driver" screen for your bitchy gf to give useless directions from

>>28584887
It might be the weirdest and most pointless feature in all automotive history. Like for real try to think of anything dumber. Not even in a "ooga booga screen bad" way but imagine the meeting where the first guy to present the idea was like "guys we need to give the passengers something to do when they're riding. How about a screen where they can watch the GPS map or maybe they can watch youtube" "Cant they just use their phones to distract them if they're bored" "LMAO dude you can't watch videos on a phone those are for making phone calls!"

>>28584970
If they consoooooom media & apps on their phone, does the car maker get anything out of it?

>>28578773 (OP)
I don't think Audi interiors have gotten worse.
I just think basic bitch cars have decent ish interiors these days.
So it's harder and harder to stand out in the luxury segment.

>>28578773 (OP)
Why the fuck does the passenger need a map of what's going on?

>>28584188
do peoples actually like shiny wood trim ?
it look like absolute garbage to me, why would you want wood that look like cheap plastic ?

>>28584786
woods absolutely btfo plastics on this measure and it is not even close
plastics simply do not last

>>28585408
I like wooden steering wheels. No need to wear gloves or wait for the heater to kick in in the winter, not that hot in the summer, harder to scratch than leather, feels nice.

>>28578834
>It's ok to be gay, as well.
What retarded faggot fed you that lie?

>>28585428
maybe socially shunning gays drives them to do more risky behaviors - maybe we should add gay sex ed to christian schools, too

>>28585428
fake numbers

>>28585526
>Most permissive society of homosexuality to ever exist
>Uhh um, society is le mean to demz

>>28581186
At least on this the screens are integrated into their surroundings. This new design concept of cars having the screens stand out by themselves like it's just a tablet stuck in a dock on the dashboard is fucking abysmal.

Audis downfall has been tragic.

>>28586812
>MOGGED by 037
>MOGGED by RS200
>MOGGED by Delta S4
>SUPER-ULTRA-MOGGED-X3 by 205 T16
The quattro is overrated as FUCK

>>28585393
>Why the fuck does the passenger need a map
Chances are pretty good the map's just a placeholder; The real goal is to sell apps and software services.
Every hardware company dreams of doing that since R&D costs of stupid apps are relatively low (just hire more jeets) and the service costs little to provide once developed (especially in the minds of stupid MBAs who don't understand software development life cycles).

>>28586909
the 037 was a clean design but it wasn't really mogging anyone either to be fair, they got by with their drivers, but the platform just didn't have the juice to hang with the competition like the stratos before or the delta after

Only 2 Audis even worth considering.
TT RS
R8 V10 RWD

>>28578773 (OP)
This is meant to be an Audi sedan? I thought it was the interior for a truck kek

>>28584188
>disappearing screen
what is the point? its extended every time you drive, just anudda point of failure.
the only time it looks good is with the car off