Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024, clams casino wrote:

Never had an audi. But I do know the RS7. I asked a colleague at one of my customers, he is from germany, about BMW and VW and his reply was "overpriced crap".

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Wow - harsh!
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That said now that VW has caught late cycle flat screen dashboard fever, he's right!
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Hiding physical controls behind haptic swipes is dangerous as Hell.

Yes! That's a horrible trend! But there is light in the tunnel. I read an
article some weeks ago about a professor in user interface design, and she said
that she is starting to get more and more consulting gigs from companies who
want to return to the glory of the button! This is the right move, especially in
cars.
In sweden, I have an old Renault, and I can control the radio fully only with
buttons, without having to look. This is safe. I do not understand the tesla
people. Must be very difficult to control settings having to swipe and push a
touch screen without taking your eyes off the road.

It seems as if the quality has been going down the past decade according to him. I currently do not own a BMW, so I do not know from personal experiece.

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If yours was an 80-90s 325, it was among their best.

Much later, this was a 2010 320d. But it was fun and packed a bit of a punch
when accelerating. =)

I have heard Germans dis Mercs as being average taxicabs.

I actually thought about an S500 for driving longer distances, but so far
haven't had the need. I have read they are supposedly very quiet. That would be
most, if not all, the reason for buying one since I do not like any noise when I
drive.