Los Volkswagen interiorsby tradition, have been sober but not of poor quality. The course changed with the arrival of the electric ID.3 to adjust its price as much as possible, dragging along the rest of the launches. Previously, the Golf 8 eliminated almost all of its physical buttons, replacing them with uncomfortable capacitive controls. This cocktail has been highly criticized by users, rightly so.
This is going to change. Or at least that’s what the head of design of the German brand has promised: Volkswagen will abandon hard plastic to replace it with more noble materials, seeking to save costs in another way that does not imply penalizing its quality so much.
“When you open the door of a Volkswagen, it has to be simple and functional, and not too decorated”
Volkswagen want to improve your interiors now plagued by plastic and moldings of the well-worn piano black. It is not the first time that the firm has backed down in recent years: the electric Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4 and ID.5 were renewed shortly after reaching the market, polishing their non-functional touch controls.
Although he did it halfway: in addition to maintaining many capacitive devices, the rear and front windows have shared buttons. In the renewed Golf something else has been redeemed, with a steering wheel with physical controls and returning to buttons for the air conditioning.
Now they will also do it with the materials. “We will try to eliminate cheap plastics and invest the money in fabrics and improve quality“he pointed out In a recent interview Andy Mindthead of design at Volkswagen.
The firm’s intention is to cut costs in other ways, and in turn resort to a more expensive material than plastic but not excessively expensive either: fabric and textile moldings.
Interior del Volkswagen ID.3
Mindt gives as an example the architecture of the door, resorting to a “panel made in three pieces”. “There will still be a door handle and armrest as before, but everything will be built in one piece. It also makes the whole process more sustainable.”
Precisely what Mindt wants is to return to the essence that has always characterized Volkswagen: “When you open the door of a Volkswagen, it has to be simple and usable, and not too decorated”. Sobriety and functionality.
Also appealing to nostalgia: the head of design has dropped that These fabrics will be inspired by “cars of the past” and “specifically for GTI models.” Which inevitably makes us think of the black checkered pattern with red and white details that the Golf or Polo GTI sported and that has almost been diluted in the current ones.
Volkswagen is now mired in a notable crisis, after a terrible strategy with its electric models. So much so that for the first time in history it is considering closing factories in Germany because its electric vehicles are not selling as they should and the plants are not profitable. The firm has also announced layoffs, which they “need” to survive because “labor costs at Volkswagen are too high.”
Source: www.motorpasion.com
