Like many things, cars contain a lot of gimmicks. There's ambient lighting with every color under the rainbow, just because. There are calming noise tracks like Hyundai and Kia's "Sounds of Nature." ...

Audi has been rolling out a technology it calls "virtual cockpit." It enables the driver to reconfigure the main instrument panel, which is an all-digital screen, to display information in a variety ...

Owners of VW Group cars have always been keen on upgrades, but these have been simple in the past, like fitting the Euro light switch on the US-spec GTI or retrofitting navigation. The latest ...

Audi has announced that all of its Audi Q2 and SQ2 models will now come with the Audi Virtual Cockpit as standard, these models will now come with the latest Audi infotainment system and will feature ...

The Volkswagen Group's Audi band has issued a pretty big recall affecting 44,387 vehicles in the United States and 3,905 in Canada. Subject vehicles range from the A6 Sedan and A6 Allroad to the RS 7 ...

Audi Virtual Cockpit -- Digital Cockpit, as VW calls it -- replaces traditional dials for speed, revs and everything else with configurable digital screens -- see the gallery above for a better idea.

Audi's Virtual Cockpit display gives the A4's cabin a high-tech feel that's almost unrivaled at this price point. Volkswagen is already rolling out a similar feature on two crossovers, but that only ...

The further developed infotainment system in the new Q7 is even clearer and more user-centric. The Audi MMI panoramic display ...

The popular A4 returns for 2017 with a dazzling development — Audi calls it the “instrument cluster of the future.” Others may consider it a milestone in the automobile’s evolution. A number of ...

Cars have become expensive, rolling gadgets that are full of screens, speakers, and sensors — but are they actually good gadgets? In our new series, ScreenDrive, we’ll review cars just like any other ...

After winning its first comparison against the Mercedes-Benz C300, we took the Audi A4 out for a bit of a road trip, where we played around with the Audi Virtual Cockpit and MMI infotainment system.

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...