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Audi. The interior is "sehr Automobilistisch Innenraum ist geschtellt" by his syle. "Ein PKW" gimmeabrake.
July 26, 2008 4:26 pm
The english doesn't make sense either... "gimmeabrake" I suppose it's "give me a break"
anyway i think it's time to put computers into cars... and why the 40GB Hard drive? why not something like a 160 or 250 GB? I guess these systems are already in the making years ago (just like those recently released BMW 7 series sketches done in 2003) and they've already ordered stockpiles of hard drives... because I just realised that downloading so many podcasts everyday needs a lot of space.
July 26, 2008 8:31 pm
My guess is that the 40 GB capacity is provided by 1,5" sub notebook drives, specially designed to resist shock, high and low extreme temperatures and humidity, etc.
2,5" drives with a capacity of up to 250 Gigs may not be robust enough.
But as BMW now announced a 10" screen and 1.024 horizontal pixels for the new 7 series, the 8" 800 pixel Audi TFT is not state of the art (though the LED backlight is).
Plus, even the new MMI does not provide any support to transfer contact and address information from cell phones into its adress book. I'd expect to have a speach command "take me to Jack as fast as possible" available with "Jack" beeing a cell phone's contact. For a brand new design, this is sort of poor...
(Sorry for my poor English.)
Greeetz, Thomas
July 28, 2008 6:30 am
They designed "A true automobilist-oriented interior" for the common credulity. Of course Audi need big and fast Hard Drive.
July 28, 2008 5:14 pm
i think that all cars should have interfaces in our days... even the simplest of cars like the smart or fiesta (dont ask about the examples just the first 2 that poped into my head) and not just more premium ones. now i know some economy cars have interfaces but they all should.
July 26, 2008 9:24 pm
I hope all this gizmo stuff does'nt get in the way of driving enjoyment.
July 27, 2008 1:58 pm
Hmm...more electronics means more weight, which in turn leads to far more problems occuring during the life of the car.
What ever happened to the simple design of cars to just enjoy without all the complexities of needless electronics?
July 28, 2008 5:03 am
If you take that steering wheel and replace it with a BMW wheel, this cabin will look very BMWish. What has happened to the understated look?
July 28, 2008 6:26 am









