I would rather have a Bluetooth speaker that could fit in my cup holder.

I wanted to support you on this product but $9 shipping is way to much for me. Looks like a good product though.

get da bag Doug, you're nearing towards your Carrera GT goal!

We know when UKposts is going downhill when even Doug has ads in his videos. UKposts Premium becomes such a waste when it's more profitable for UKposts creators to put ads in their videos than to rely on UKposts ad revenue.

@@RichardCollette42 I don't blame him. UKposts is really going downhill.

I just got done ranting about this same thing in my own comment. These decisions must be made by people who don't drive. Who else would think this garbage is a good idea?

I will say swipe controls are probably better than touch buttons tho

Just like I hope EVs are short lived🤞🏽

@@MandusahRamirez You’re gonna be hoping for the rest of your life because most Automakers have plans to sell exclusively hybrid and electrical vehicles by 2035…

@@eljefeamericano4308 I can promise you EVs are going nowhere but, it's not all bad news. Some of the quickest vehicles in the world are EVs. The McLaren P1, Porsche 918 and La Ferrari are all extraordinarily impressive hybrid supercars each with roughly 900 to 1000 BHP. The Lucid Air Sapphire having 1200 BHP from it's top model and will do 0 to 60 in 2 seconds, Tesla Model S, 1020 BHP, 0 to 60 in 1.99 seconds. Moving from electric for a second, the Newer Ford GT is powered by a twin turbo V6 that makes 660 BHP but is so light and they raced it at Le Mon and it blitzed it using an engine that shares over half of it's components with that of a Ford F-150's. Continuing with Ford, the F-150 lightning is brilliant and because Ford insisted the EPA test it with a 1000lb slab of concrete in the bed when measuring range so in the real world it actually gets close to 400 miles on a charge and can power a standard home for up to 3 days straight. The people I know that dislike EVs have never driven a fun one and they're usually old Boomers who don't like change and think Climate change is a hoax despite 99.9 % of climate scientists worldwide agree that human activity is responsible for the current ultra accelerated time frame as yes the climate has changed multiple times in the 3.6 billion years the earth has existed, only now.. instead of occuring over tens to hundreds and even a thousand Millenia, it's happening rapidly over a period of decades and even yesrs which can cause cataclysmic collapse as there are several of what are called tipping points like the large Antarctic Glacier that if it were to fall into the ocean, would cause sea levels to rise 10 feet in a matter of minutes and continue to rise as that super Glacier Melts. Coastline property would be worst effected in the southern hemisphere but eventually make it's way up north.... And despite what that Mickey Mouse sounding douche bag Ben Shapiro says, you can't just sell your house and move because one, you likely couldn't in the first place due to rising intre rates and the insane housing market and two.. your house would be likely permanently submerged underwater. Not even mentioning a similar cataclysm glacier in Greenland that would screw the Eastern Seaboard... Oh and then there's Jair Bolsonaro who has nearly completely turned the world largest carbon sync basically into a net positive carbon producer... Like have people not noticed that the words, “a once in a decade” or “once in a century storm” have become normal on weather broadcasts with the same happening with droughts. They are lasting longer and longer, making it increasingly difficult to grow crops, then it will be another once in a whater storm that lasts days to weeks the ruin most crops that survive such heavy drought... Like I get Boomers, other old people snd just straight up dumb people don't care because to them if it's not affecting them right now.. they don't care, yet its that group that has the audacity to say your generation just wants instant gratification, if I'm in a drive through window maybe but, when it comes to the Earth we think long term because we are the ones that are going to have to live in your old ass's Cyberpunk Hell scape.. Petroleum Is a terrible fuel, it's dirty, it requires a complex and dangerous infrastructure network to keep the supply coming *cough* Exxon Valdez * cough* Blue water horizon... Where electricity can be generated much more efficiently in a power plant to create energy to charge an EV which is why most EVs get the equivalent of 70+mpge equivalent. And battery power is not the only way to power them. Hydrogen and Hydrogen fuel cells are incredibly powerful, hell you can even mod a combustion engine to run on hydrogen gas and the only waste product is water. I'm in my 20s so I would quite like to not have a world ending event occur in my lifetime.. or at all and people really need to re-educate themselves on fission nuclear energy and how safe, green and effective it is. The Chernobyl disaster was caused by the RBMK reactor being 1. Of cheap Soviet design that used uranium-235 that had only been enriched to 40% combined with the mock test that was being done at the time being handled by people not fully familiar with the equipment, Fukushima which used a Westinghouse reactor had a steam and hydrogen explosion as the fuel rods melted because when the tsunami hit, The geniuses that built the place decided it was a good idea to put the backup generators in the basement and 3 Mile Island wasn't really a big disaster considering that the other reactor there kept producing energy up until last year. France is currently reactivating most of its nuclear power plants and Gernam is delaying closing theirs to deal with no longer purchasing Russian fuel, German. People have this huge misconception that nuclear energy is inherently dangerous and it's not, You have to purposely mess it up for it to become dangerous. Modern western reactors or pressurized water reactors are designed to fail safe meaning that if there is a problem it does not require the intervention of a single person to scram the reactor and lower the control rods to stop the reaction. Oh but what about nuclear waste I hear you asking. Chances are if you live even remotely near a nuclear power plant you're also living near nuclear waste as spent fuel rods are placed in cooling pools right inside the nuclear facility until they're cool enough to be placed in casks where they are combined with concrete silica and other materials to prevent them from reacting, heating up and going critical. They're also placed in these boxes that are so indestructible that there is actually video demonstrations of them being hit by fully laden trains and being completely fine and one has never ruptured and created a nuclear waste incident. Again nuclear waste is not green glowing liquid. It's the silvery metal uranium 235 and 238 (depleted uranium) as well as uranium's daughter isotopes like thorium. Thorium by the way was being sold online in multiple stores on Amazon as bracelets infused with it to increase "negative ions" I $hit u not" And although the popular joke is fusion is always 50 years away, that annoying joke may soon be coming to an end as ITER or international Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is being built in south France and Will be the largest TokaMac fusion reactor on the planet. China, the EU, India, Russia, and the United States. And because, unlike fission reactors where it's isotopes are dangerously and can be used to create nuclear bombs if properly enriched or at least dirty bombs and can melt down Catastrophic conditions, if there is a failure in a fusion reactor it's simply Is the reaction stops, It also produces basically no long lasting radiation waste, at least in comparison how much possible energy it could output compared to fission reactors. Just imagine this for a second, The United States moves all of its energy efforts to solar, wind, biodiesel, solar mirror concentrators, battery and other storage technology, safe nuclear fission, geothermal energy, hydroelectric dams, introducing strong subsidies so that people are incentivized to put solar panels on their house so that although the electrical grid desperately needs to be upgraded as doing so would likely increase efficiency by 30% as well as creating microgrids with neighborhoods with solar panels and battery storage devices. Tidal and wave power And people more qualify than me that have done the calculations that have said if we did so, meeting our energy needs would be easily met by the small amount of fossil fuel we would have to extract from the ground on US soil and/or natural gas, making us completely energy independent and perhaps including Canada in on this as it would be a mutually beneficial agreement. That means no more wars over oil, No more cowtailing to countries like Saudi Arabia that murder United States journalist And then use a bone saw to chop them into pieces. What I am proposing is not out of the realm of possibility or even something that could only happen far in the future. I'm talking 10 to 20 years max if we wake up and realize we are on borrowed time and if there was a miracle and a majority of the United States citizens agreed on something it would take much less time. And if God willing We crack fusion, That would literally mean the biggest change for good in humanity since penicillin, antibiotics, basically all medicines, the internet, cars and the interstates and roads on which we drive them, passenger planes, trains... Basically any advancements humanity had made thus far would be completely dwarfed by what would now be a clean and practically limitless power supply that could power rockets that could travel at a small percentage of c (the speed of light Energy = Mass x the speed of light²) or E=MC². That would quickly make us a multi planetary species no longer needing to fight for resources or worry about climate change as fusion is clean energy and food production would become easy as we could do it basically anywhere given the energy. So if you're one of those people sitting there reading this comment and you've gotten this far... And you think rolling coal is funny despite the fact that it's basically the equivalent of a magic trick a 5-year-old just learned and won't stop doing while simultaneously pointing out to everyone else on the road that you are definitely not secure in your masculinity) American trucks are now bigger than the tanks we used to win WW2. I get if you need to haul things, The time to act is now…. Hell, yesterday

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Doug left out "cars and bids" felt kinda empty

Ferrari just made an SUV I bet he already knows about it let's being him to review it

That's why the F-150 Lightning is sold out into next year. It's an F-150, the best-selling vehicle in North America, and it just happens to be electric.

Exactly right. Some Audi buyers don’t want a crazy electric car with an Audi badge. They just want an Audi, but electric. This won’t scare those buyers away in the showroom.

I don't know anybody who wants that. Not having to put an engine under a hood has the potential to change a lot of things for the better, and this fails at it.

@@jonc4403 agree. That's why Tesla have done so well as they've delivered a range of ground up designed electric cars AND the network to support them.

I just want a regular car with a V8

What’s weird is that the model 3 used to be relatively affordable for a new car in 2019, they could be bought for 40k with taxes and fees included

They cant become more affordable when the materials are in more demand and becoming scarcer. Costs will only rise, which they just did. Big hikes on a number of new EVs

So much baloney from people who do not own EVS. I have a taycan and a Hyundai ionic. Colorado to California drive with just normal stops. Solar panels on the roof of the house that pay for the normal driving electricity. The ionic was about the same price as an average car. And such a great car. Way better performance than gas. Oil companies and gas cars are dead.

@@vnorvi lmao gas-powered cars arent going anywhere in your lifetime. Suck it up.

@@vnorvi Oil companies and gas cars are dead until the US goes to war with China and can't get the materials necessary to build these EVs.

@Finally 🅥 reported

@@marktwain8192 nothing ever happens man

It's his job 🤦‍♂️

@@pooolish334 ikr y ppl got be so sabby bout everything

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Weird! The original e-tron (aka the fat e-tron) has OTA updates.

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@@the_chris The Sportback isn’t “fat”

@@aaron-fauth 😂😂

For me the car is faaaarr to expensive to compete with tesla. (I am talking for EU market) Sticker price with the best engine is about 68'000$ thats with standart equipment. With all the cool stuff like 4 zone climate better ambient lightning etc etc. We are talking round about 90k-100k. Thats hella expensive for a middle class ev suv.

But have they made an Audi? Aren't you a bit disappointed by the interior (materials)?

@@NO3V it’s my first Audi, but I don’t find the material quality any waited than the BMW F10 I had before. With the exception of the damn piano black which permanently looks like some sort of crime scene 😂 (I’ve ranted about that in a couple of videos lol)

@@NO3V the other thing I’d say is that mine was £47k so under $50k and the monthly payments were identical to an ID4 (slightly better spec). At £65k for top spec versions over here I’d be tempted to get a Model Y instead.

I asked before I watched the video. After seeing Doug talk about the "luxory" interior I am starting to wonder if the US version is different than the German one. Because that is pretty bad - even compared to a (German built) Tesla Model Y.

@@edinreviews Yeah. It's certainly more affordable. But the Tesla seems better value - you just get _much_ more while paying _a bit_ more - but that fact doesn't matter if you can't or won't stretch the budget.

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but.. but.. you're in Germany in Audi homeland, yet you're looking forward to some american (no disrespect) reviewing your own (german) cars. Come on people, snap out of it! It's like me waiting for some youtuber from India to review a Dacia! (me being from Romania). Also, as far as I know, all these manufacturers have factories in the US/Mexico and quality often differs from the european ones (made in Germany).

I've seen them too and the rear amber indicators look amazing! We get sh!t red blinkers.

@@jbmcdoogle It's because there are some strict regulations about indicators in the US which don't exist in Europe in this form. That's why you often see this amazing indicator design on european streets.

@@windhoff1417 I know about old US light regulations that insist on having so many sq inches of light, etc BUT Audi could eliminate that by doing away with the dynamic light and replace it with a static amber flash. Look at Tesla's Model Y or Model X. Or Volvo's new C40. The combo static brake light and streaming blinker looks incredibly stupid.

too bad Doug didn't mention the crappy materials in the back, which is the same on all MEB platform cars

regardig OTA updating this will be in new 3.0 software update?

@@radue6830 Do you tend to ride in the back seat of your car? Seems like a fine place to save money.

@@prasad530 nope, but i m not paying audi money for crap vw interior

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What other quirks led you to selling it? I generally like the car but honestly it’s just a little boring for my taste. Especially for a mid $50-60k car once you start optioning it. I really like Audi’s sedans but all their crossovers and SUV are really starting to blend together nowadays

@@philorgneopolotin8762 wake up and buy the EV6 like you should have the first time

@@devongee1776 EV6 is so god awful ugly

@@devongee1776 yeah but it’s a Kia…who tf wants a kia

@@tiagopatrao4848 people that know anything about the latest kia models

Yeah, or I was thinking if you had to wait in the car a while you could turn everything off to save some power

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@Finally 🅥 That didn't explain anything. It's a video about a cow with a ton of dislikes. Try again.

Yes cause it starts and stops electronics

It is, but much worse in performance :(

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Nah

@@jhovjhov yeah

@@Russell85 This is for someone transitioning from gas car to electric that still want that gas feel. The ride in this is so much more natural than Tesla. Tesla also has interior build quality issues and feels very cheap. It’s not just about KM range for everybody.

As an EV enthusiast...strong agree!

He’s a family man now and a business owner. We are blessed that he’s still giving us these reviews. It’s actually therapeutic.

Nice

Cool

I'm 21. Agreed. I guess we can go join the old person club. Ain't really a sports car guy. I just like a good product. This ain't it chief.

I'm between you two in age, but I agree all the same. I just want dedicated, manual controls with some sort of tactile feedback. Guess if this is truly going to be the future of automotive interiors, I'll save a lot of money by buying older and older used cars.

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That center shifter area looks cheap as hell. Embarrassing.

I test drove the Q4 etron and it felt kind of cheap.

There’s probably like 2 electric cars out there that don’t seem cheap in a big way or two

It’s not just this model. Audi has been cost cutting on their interior materials for at least 5 years now. Very plastic laden interiors.

@E Van Sometimes it's better not to do something new when the old works just fine (*coughs* BMW size 36 grille *coughs*)

I kinda get the blandness of the design This car doesn't scream "Electric Car" it just looks like another Audi SUV. People might be interested in that.

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@E Van All the sedan are starting to look the same from Audi as well. Mercedes is the worst.

@@aidaaliten8817?

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Except Tesla does not offer individuality, speedometer, HUD, service, adequate brakes. the do "future" stuff good but they don't even offer basics

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But the Audi is a premium manufacturer and the Tesla is not. The building quality of the Tesla cars are far away from the european premiums (bmw,audi,mercedes,porsche etc ...).

@@Pr0nStYle adequate brakes? What? Have you seen any comparison of a model Y to comparable mid-sized EVs? It performs the exact same if not better than anything in its class. The rest are pretty minor things tbh. I’ve never once bought a car for an “HUD” or service. I’d much rather buy for things like tech, range, performance, efficiency, charging speed etc. that you actually use on a regular basis. The real advantages of the Q4 is build quality and materials used. The ones you mentioned are pretty inconsequential to most buyers

Seriously?You even dare to compare that garbage ID4 full of plastic with this gorgeus Audi?What Is wrong with your taste?🤣

That's the point. The phone should not be utilized when you are driving. Android auto link your phone to your car and provide functionality that is still safe while driving.

@@ntdnguyen85 my phone mounted in the pro clip is safer and easier to use than the touch screen imo

15:45 this has been true of most every Audi from the 90s forward. It’s always a very nice, higher end Volkswagen. I would save the money and buy the Volkswagen, frankly. But that’s just me.

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Yes, much more a fan of the fat e-tron despite the range. This is a compromised vehicle that’s not $10k better than the iD4

Dougslexic

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He didn’t even stutter.

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First thing that goes out, even a small bump/hit to the bumper cover or wherever the sensor is located and it'll go out of calibration... not cheap lol

Yes it will be lol

I get all of my life advice from Doug

I have an ID.4 with the same dual-motor, extended battery setup (I also have a top-spec Mach-E). Like all batteries, it loses range in the winter, but unlike my friends’ Teslas, both cars get their actual quoted figures. In fact, the Mach-E gets it’s full 270 miles averaging 65 mph on interstate roadtrips (80 mph cruise, plus slow-downs, etc). Because the starting points use different math, the effect you may be experiencing as a Telsa owneer isn’t quite the same as those using the more conservative EPA math.

EVs are such an abysmal replacement for the automobile. 😞

@@Cincy32 In what way? They are faster, need less maintenance, and are cheaper to fuel. Many electric cars are the best cars on the road. If you look at how long we have been mass producing modern electric cars vs gas cars it will be staggering how much better they are in a few years.

@@Cincy32 To each his own I guess. We're now all EV and are never going back.

@@paulelledge8977 Surveillance, remote control, pricing out the poor/working classes, unreliability in extreme weather, still unaddressed safety issues, infrastructure, charge times, etc., etc.

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They interior quality is all they have over the model Y

@@DescartesRenegade seriously. I’m a polestar owner so I can definitely say that the Q4 is not very impressive next to a model Y

$14k is also a deciding factor

but energy efficiency is awfull

@@Tonyx.yt. Q4 etron consumption : 17kwh/100km Model Y consumption : 16.9kwh/100km The q4 Etron also has a larger battery, a way better interior and none of the quality issues

Forreal I wish people would stop quoting MSRP for dealer based manufacturers when comparing to Tesla.

Dealer is marking it up $10k for me. UGH.

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The Korean trio is among the only ones using an 800 volt architecture making this possible. Only others are high end EVs like Porsche Taycan.

@@Josh-179 Tesla has virtually the same charging speeds with 400 Volts. It doesn’t have to be 800 Volts to charge fast.

That all sounds slow compared to filling up a gas tank, at literally any gas station I come across.

@@eljefeamericano4308 average wait at a Costco gas pump is 20 minutes now.

@@LearningFast Wow. Where? There's nothing like that happening where I live.

@@aidaaliten8817?

LOL

ugh,

Remember these cars are designed a couple years ago an are just coming out. By the time Audi an other manufacturers see people dislike for captive touch buttons an they stop putting them in new cars. Those cars wont actually come out for a couple years.

I hate this new trend, too. Would never buy a car with an interior like this.

Exactly, the range is a big downside considering how much better Tesla and Genesis are. And the interior surfaces are total fingerprint magnets.

You post as though you're both an expert on cars (which you're not) and that people would be remotely interested in your personal opinions (which they are not). This isn't your channel get over yourself

Audis are (generally) reliable especially newer ones

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@@slowery43 I am in no way saying I’m an expert. I like to learn about new cars and I was seriously considering purchasing a new suv in this class. Doug generally has unbiased videos where I can learn and formulate my own “score” or whatever you’d like to call it if on your hunt for a new vehicle.

It makes no difference as it turns on instantly when you get back in 🤔

It's doesn't "shut off" because there is no engine. It just puts it into park.

@@darreng8084 I own a 2018 Audi PHEV. It does shut off, completely. Even when in Neutral.

@@edinreviews Nope. It takes seconds to shut down, and it takes seconds to start up. I'm talking about my 2018 PHEV.

@@nolanhitchens ah ok. I’ve got a Q4 and as soon as you press the brake and select D it’s good to go, doesn’t take any longer than putting a traditional auto into D

The generic touch screen interiors and now coupled with EV motors means there is little unique appeal between cars, its going to be a sea of bland sameness, just with slightly different exteriors, mostly crossover SUV type things. All quiet, all without gearshifts, all with more and more complicated touchscreens. Not good!

@@3UZFE 100% agree. When I sit in older cars, and when I say older, I mean 10+ years older (barely “old”), I feel like the car has a personality… it has “body parts,” it makes sounds, it has imperfections that give it a personality, and still, they’re comfortable and objectively easy to use (like turning a knob to make the A/C colder or raise the volume). They feel like large animals that we created and tamed and now are responsible for controlling, which makes you bond with the car AND pay attention in the road. But now everything is just a gray, white, or black polygon with a computer inside encouraging you to not worry about driving as it silently moves you around in traffic… they’ve become elegant shoeboxes with no soul and no engagement. Fast 0-60 electric car speeds are a gimmick that all electric cars will be soon be evenly matched. Whether you go 0-60 in 1, 2, or 3 seconds in an EV, it all feels migraine inducingly quick… so what’s left to make them feel special besides styling? Nothing. It’s sad.

It’s all a scam to crush us into submission. Even if you could afford these cars, you won’t be able to charge them up, soon. So it won’t matter. But hey the government will take care of you! Why work?!

Yeah, the Model Y only went up about $15K this year. Good thing EV prices are dropping quick like they promised.

@@carnageasada1 Make electricity scarce so you can charge more for it. Its like the diamond cartel.

@@Josh-179 Its also great that in order for someone to own an EV in a way that makes sense you have to charge it at home. With the rising housing costs the EV future sure looks bright. I mean if you rent an apartment or townhouse you can gtfo but for the upper middle class suburbanites its awesome.

Agreed. I’ve always thought it looked awful from photos. Seemed really lop-sided and asymmetrical. I hated it. But then I actually got to sit inside one in person at a dealership, I was actually surprised at how futuristic and edgy it looked. Looks A LOT nicer in person for sure.