Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription

[feelosofer]

Way to undermine your own ethos.

 

[OneDeep]

Electric Cars are going to have separate Driving DLC soon

 

[GhostfacexDOOM]

Apparently they didn't learn nothing from that diesel gate shyt.... too big to fail.....smh

 

[Let A Fro Be A Fro]

They don't want you to truly ever "own" any product.

Fixed

 

[Heretic]

Mercedes did the same thing with their EQs 2 years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/business/mercedes-horsepower-upgrade

 

[staticshock]

this was egregious. that fukkin technology is like 30 years old you'd think dropping 80 grand on those nazi sleds would give you "privilege" of a heated seat

A Trump supporter calling VW a Nazi sled

Seems like your type of car

 

[Tetris v2.0]

What happens if your credit card payment bounces while on the autobahn? Does the car suddenly turn off? Can you keep the engine running forever to avoid the downgrade? Lol

 

[etrofllenrod504]

The greed in this world just at astronomical level

 

[Whore D'oeuvres]

Bottom wagon is clean. But every generation of the golf has looked like a cornball-mobile only to be driven by flannel loving cacs or nikkas named Lamar who don't get line-ups and have an anime girl pillow on their bed.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

so this is like if Ford didn’t make both a V6 and V8 mustang model but instead locked the additional HP behind a paywall..which would save them costs

I don’t see the big outrage tbh .

The paywall means they're selling you a gimped car and charging you extra to use it at spec. Just sell the car as is at the full price. The "lifetime" subscription is only $700.

 

[ORDER_66]

Remember when BMW tried to put the heated /cooling seats behind a subscription service on THE CAR YOU JUST BOUGHT?!?! just blasphemy..

 

[stave]

the Arteon is no longer is production for the US market and we never got the estate version overseas. The Mk 8 Golf is only sold over here in the GTI and R variants. You're proving my point- but to be clear, Volkswagen of America fell off. Dieselgate made them bush a lot of good cars and start selling SUVs I don't want and electric cars nobody wants.

EU Volkswagen still has some gems