Some months ago during 2014 Geneva Motor Show VW group in its Audi flavour announced a 12.3 inch screen with TFT display with the capability to display three-dimensional, full-screen maps adding a plus respect to what we can see in the very high level Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Today during Volkswagen Passat 2015 premiere such cockpit display has been presented for the German Maker class D Passat B8 version.
This is in my opinion a great step in infotainment and graphical interface in Car world because not related to a top class car but to a middle-high car meaning that soon we’ll could see such approach also in the middle C-class cars as VW Golf.
If the apporac used in Audi TT 12.3 inch dashboard has not been changed, the TFT is powered by two Nvidia Tegra K1 mobile processors based on the same graphics architecture as that used in the world’s extreme gaming PCs and the fastest supercomputer. The “virtual cockpit” in Audi TT and I expect also in VW Passat sports High-res LCD panels with 1,440 by 550 pixel, the mentioned Nvidia twin quad-core CPUs, 4G data, natural language voice recognition, computer controlled four wheel drive, very high level navigation experience and more.
While enjoying with some videos (courtesy of worldcarfans) take note of the motors offered by new VW Passat:
– 1.4 TSI with 125 PS (92 kW) and 150 PS (110 kW)
– 1.4 TSI plug-in hybrid with 211 PS (155 kW)
– 1.8 TSI with 180 PS (132 kW)
– 1.6 TDI with 120 PS (88 kW)
– 2.0 TDI with 150 PS (110 kW), 190 PS (140 kW) and 240 PS (176 kW)
– 2.0 TSI with 220 PS (162 kW) and 280 PS (206 kW)
2015 VW Passat TFT Dashboard (a)
VW Passat 2015 Dashboard (b)
VW Passat 2015 Dashboard (c)
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