Most of the mechanical bits of Audi's are shared with other VAG cars, and are therefore typically a bit mundane (at least until you get to their hand me downs from Lambo). However, I've felt for years that Audi interiors come across as being a step ahead of pretty much every vaguely similarly priced cars.
Yesterday I got a lift in my project managers shiny new A5 (4 door version). I might aswell have got in a Polo, really did feel very similar, i.e. similar grade plastics. Worse still was that the internal door handles and alumium trim certainly weren't aluminium or alloy. They were all the same type of high grade plastic that BMW uses in Minis.
Unfortunatley I hate immitation alloy and alumium almost as much as the use of fake wood and carbon fibre (surely you use CF to replace structural members and REDUCE weight, NOT to tart up some lardy arsed shopping trolley).
Have Audi recently appointed an accountant to run the company? I certainly don't remember older Audis in the last few years using so much plastic.
I can't help but think that Audi's have for the last decade been a real hit because of their showroom appeal (ie. they might be mostly rubbish to drive, but they're a nice place to be when you're in a traffic jam). If they keep this up, we'll all end up buying Mondeos, when you at least get reasonable VFM on the plastic.
Yesterday I got a lift in my project managers shiny new A5 (4 door version). I might aswell have got in a Polo, really did feel very similar, i.e. similar grade plastics. Worse still was that the internal door handles and alumium trim certainly weren't aluminium or alloy. They were all the same type of high grade plastic that BMW uses in Minis.
Unfortunatley I hate immitation alloy and alumium almost as much as the use of fake wood and carbon fibre (surely you use CF to replace structural members and REDUCE weight, NOT to tart up some lardy arsed shopping trolley).
Have Audi recently appointed an accountant to run the company? I certainly don't remember older Audis in the last few years using so much plastic.
I can't help but think that Audi's have for the last decade been a real hit because of their showroom appeal (ie. they might be mostly rubbish to drive, but they're a nice place to be when you're in a traffic jam). If they keep this up, we'll all end up buying Mondeos, when you at least get reasonable VFM on the plastic.
) so if you care about quality of materials there, you should certainly care about the quality of materials in your car cabin.
- It's red, noisy, and slow.