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

 

[Schadenfreude]

Volkswagen fell off and I say this as an owner. Dieselgate really turned them into a bunch of pussies. And most of the cars they sell now don't look good anymore.

VW in Europe moves totally different in terms of the cars they offer versus the US. Their cars are fantastic they offer in Europe compared to the milquetoast the US gets

Golf R Wagon? Polo GTI? Next gen Touareg? Turbocharged VR6 in the Arteon? Hell, I WISH they offered that stuff stateside, even if the numbers were small. shyt, even that Spectrum option they had for the last gen Golf R was fantastic -- when's the last time you saw an automaker offer 40+ colors on one model car?