The Audi A3 will gain a fully digital instrument cluster

Rick Hudi, head of electronics at Audi, revealed in an interview with Motoring that the Audi A3 will gain a fully digital instrument cluster. This novelty for the C-segment compacts will be inherited from those already used in the new Audi TT, Audi R8 and Audi Q7. The flagship models of the Ingolstadt-based firm include this technology as standard, with the exception of the Q7 SUV, but the Audi A3 will not include it as standard equipment either; buyers will have to choose higher-performance engines and trim levels.

“In the future, there will not be many cars that have not integrated this technology, even in smaller models. The customer who opts for the base A3 will not have this option, but if they choose a larger engine or a well-equipped higher trim, then they will choose it, there is no doubt,” Rick Hudi stated during the interview. Besides gaining this digital instrument cluster, the Audi A3 facelift, the new generations of the Audi A4, Audi A5 and Audi Q5 will also feature this technology.

Although few further details were revealed by Audi’s head of electronics, he stated that it would be based on the digital instrument clusters the brand already offers. For this reason, the video I have included at the end of the article may be very illustrative for getting an idea of what they have in mind in Ingolstadt for the restyling of the Audi A3.

This cluster is part of the new Audi TTS and shows a fully LCD panel that is completely switched off. Once the ignition is turned on and/or the engine is started, both the speedometer and the rev counter appear to float, allowing their size to change depending on whether one toggles through the engine settings and the on-board computer, or prefers to display the navigation system, in which case the size of the gauges shrinks to allow greater detail on the navigation maps.

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