The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions

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So far there’s subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

Doors this apply to Europe too?

Has this been cracked, so people using these features bypassing the paywall?

Seems like this practice is banned in the EU, yeah.

Relevant article

Subscription-based electric-car power increases banned in Europe

A subscription-based power increase for Mercedes-Benz owners has been barred in Europe.

Drive

The Dutch article that they look to doesn’t say what they think it says. In Netherlands there are legal implications to change the amount of power of engine after it is sold.

The article doesn’t is solely about engine power. Not about any other subscription option to enable something.

I also wouldn’t see how a stupid subscription would be banned by some EU law. Aside from e.g. engine power.