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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by bedobi on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:06PM (#35721991)
Audi have some very recent cars that are completely screen free - they have a screen which completely retracts into the dashboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_F2dpj5Kas&t=42s

and if you have analog gauges too, there are no screens. (except the tiny one between the gauges which doesn't count imo)

They're also completely piano black free. Best car interior maybe ever. Thread here https://old.reddit.com/r/Audi/comments/w9dkcm/what_models_ha...

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by TacticalCoder on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:05PM (#35722424)
Also the VW group, but on the high-end luxury side, the rotating display (three positions) of the Bentley Continental GT (that car shares its platform with the Porsche Panamera, also from the VW group, but the Panamera doesn't have that rotating display):

https://youtu.be/JZNGniDpJ-s

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by bedobi on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:35PM (#35722638)
the side with the analog dials looks amazing

shame they made the dash shiny black though :P I hate it as much as I hate touchscreens haha shakes walking stick

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by LeftHandPath on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:41AM (#35723415)
They have many options for the veneer - carbon fiber, aluminum, and a number of gorgeous wood options.

If I find the dough I really hope to buy one before they're forced to go all EV.

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by jimmySixDOF on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:49PM (#35722733)
They have also just been promoting the Activesphere Concept Car in the last few months that uses Mixed Reality / AR glasses developed in collaboration with Magic Leap.

https://youtu.be/f0MC1D3c0m8

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by tom9729 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:49AM (#35723458)
It's a neat feature, but I'd be worried about it getting stuck and being unable to retract.

Later model years removed the ability to retract the screen on demand, due to backup-camera laws, and the 2021-ish refresh ditched the retractable display for an in-dash display similar to the 10th-gen Honda Civic (which amusingly, ditched the in-dash display in its 11th-gen for the previous A3 style).

This might be cheating but if you want a mostly screen-free recent Audi your best bet is probably the TT (or its big brother the R8 :-), the only screen is the entire gauge cluster and it's certainly not a touch screen.

Just do _not_ get a modern VW with its touch sensitive steering wheel controls...

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by bdavbdav on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:51AM (#35727259)
Unfortunately these ones arent the recent ones (that A3 has been gone for a couple of years). They went from these style screens with MMI controllers in the centre, but if you buy an A4 or better now, you get 2 touchscreens and no tactile controls for climate etc sadly.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by bedobi on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:40PM (#35730766)
Yup the new ones are trash unfortunately, all screens and piano black plastic interior
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by ytreyrty on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:46PM (#35734315)
I hate that Porsche has gone all in on the touch screens instead of buttons, as they had been one of the last holdouts.

My 911 has physical buttons for pretty much everything, and the small touch screen can be turned off so it is completely dark. The new models are not interesting to me as they have replaced all the gauges and physical buttons with touch screens and touch sensitive buttons

and dont get me started on the fact that barely any 911s come in manual anymore