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.

  • @RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    Mazda is still good I think.

    But they’re kinda expensive and they gatekeep features to their higher tiers, that other manufacturers keep to their lower ones.

    Hyundai perhaps, but they’ve also had other issues.

      • Encrypt-Keeper
        English
        2•4 months ago

        Yeah but the only thing Mazda charges a subscription for is the extra unnecessary bullshit that is coordinated through their servers. Thats a fair value proposition, even though I’d never pay for it. Heated seats, radar cruise control, shit like that still just comes with the car.

    • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Hyundai perhaps, but they’ve also had other issues.

      I can’t find an article about it right now, but I could’ve sworn they tried to pull some subscription bullshit (other than “Bluelink” or “Evolve+,” which are relatively legit) a while back, too.

      • @ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        At the very least I believe the only thing they’re currently doing is Bluelink (remote find your car, start car over the Internet, etc). But maybe there’s something they started in the last 6 months I haven’t heard about.