“Real innovations still excite me!”

“Real innovations still excite me!”

He has turned his passion for cars into his profession. Dr Friedbert Weizenecker, freelance car journalist and editor of Der-Autotester.de, has been trying out the new Touareg for us. But his first experience driving in a Volkswagen was a long while ago:

What was my first car? A Beetle. My second? A Golf GTI. My third? A Porsche 924. My parents never had a car so the topic of cars was always somewhat amplified for me. Studying did nothing to change that. After obtaining degrees in business, economics and sociology, my doctorate didn’t stop me from pursuing my passion. After writing academic features for an economics magazine, I came into auto journalism in 2008. Why? I just have a fascination with cars – and I still do today, after 10 years. My dream job can sometimes be exhausting. I’m at the car producers’ driving events almost every week, around the world. So it’s not just the cars which become my living room, its the airports and hotels as well.

And where can you see my writings, my photos and video clips? I write for several daily newspapers and websites. I founded the Der-Autotester.de online car magazine five years ago. I work there as editor and as a writer, and the project is going very well: we get an average of 4,000 visitors to the site every day.

In contrast to the basic version, which has analogue tubes behind a 7-inch screen and a 9.2-inch touchscreen, the digital version features a 12-inch display in front of the driver seat and just next to it is the touchscreen for the superior infotainment system, which is 15 inches. Climate, seat heating and navigation controls are integrate into its touch screen interface alongside a host of other functions. It can be used and adjusted to your personal preferences practically without any instruction or guidance. Because the human being really should be at the centre of the action.

The driver can adjust the assist, driving dynamic and comfort systems to their own taste. They allows them to create their own totally personal Touareg. Drivers and passengers no longer have to adapt themselves to the car. The car adapts itself to them. It’s as easy as setting up a new smartphone. Even the technically uninclined won’t face any problems, most of all because a lot of things work in a self-explanatory way. So easy, as if Volkswagen had invented the smartphone.

NightVision as an outstanding innovation from Volkswagen
Driving at night isn’t everybody’s cup of tea. For older people and those who wear glasses, driving at dusk or in darkness can often give rise to some anxiety. The reason for this is simple: the pupil of the eye dilates in darkness so that more light can be let in. When this happens the field of clear vision unfortunately become narrower. The consequence of this is that your vision is not as clear. Volkswagen can’t give us clearer vision but with the new NightVision function, the car takes on the drivers discomfort and provides him with additional safety.

This spotlight is only available when bought with NightVision. Danger situations can be recognised and avoided much more quickly with the combination of NightVision and I.Q. Light LED matrix headlights. Hats off to the Volkswagen engineers. They’ve done a great job! Their innovation will definitely help in reducing the occurrence of accidents involving harm to people and will save lives.

Fantastic to experience such innovations, concludes the car tester, who is particularly with his dream job today.