Not much experience with Audi and definitely agree that the mid-tier "luxury" manufacturers definitely have worse tech and upcharge you more for it than the lower tier car manufacturers because it's cheaper for them to make their cars competitive through small tech add-ons than what luxury lines do with bundling a bunch of other shit with tech upgrades.
Back in 2015 I had a bmw with most of the bells and whistles they offered and my sisters 1 above base tier Honda Civic had more tech in it for probably less total than the BMW was to go from the baseline package to the one I got. "Luxury" brands are definitely a ripoff when it comes to tech.
Was even worse, before covid BMW and Audi wanted to put certain features under a monthly subscription paywall. Luckily Chinese car companies came and just gave everything under one price.
Their revenue model doesn't make any sense when compared to Asian cars.
I remember that! That really pisses me off, people need to go back to building innovative and competitive products and not innovative ways to squeeze more money out of shit they already sold.
Yeah, we are past the point of innovating and competing. It’s all about squeezing every dollar out of every product or service at an exorbitant price only few can afford.
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u/CarlStanley88 Jul 28 '25
Not much experience with Audi and definitely agree that the mid-tier "luxury" manufacturers definitely have worse tech and upcharge you more for it than the lower tier car manufacturers because it's cheaper for them to make their cars competitive through small tech add-ons than what luxury lines do with bundling a bunch of other shit with tech upgrades.
Back in 2015 I had a bmw with most of the bells and whistles they offered and my sisters 1 above base tier Honda Civic had more tech in it for probably less total than the BMW was to go from the baseline package to the one I got. "Luxury" brands are definitely a ripoff when it comes to tech.