The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions [Update]
www.motor1.com
The 2025 Audi A3 looks sharper and comes with more tech, but you will have to pay a subscription for some basic in-car features.

So far there’s subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    It is far cheaper to produce a single trim with most of the features. Customization costs money. There is a reason Porsches are expensive.

    Multiple seat types is literally buildings and lines they need to construct. It’s a similar scales of economy concept like binning chips. Instead of multiple lines.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Even if that were true, that still means that everyone is paying for that one single trim, including all the optional features in it. By paying for the subscription, you’re just paying more money, not less.