Volkswagen Discover Premium review: 15-inch infotainment in the 2020 VW Touareg is a massive flex!

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This infotainment screen is HUGE! We review the 2020 Volkswagen Touareg infotainment screen. The Volkswagen infotainment system is called Discover Premium and is part of the Innovision package. It comes with wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and Paul Maric takes you through a detailed review of Discover Premium and the Virtual Cockpit!  Read the full review: https://www.carexpert.com.au/review/vw-touareg-innovision-package-review/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=review&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=infotainment-review  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Volkswagen has stepped forward in a big way when it comes to infotainment,

00:05 so much so that they have one of the biggest screens you'll find inside a car. It's 15

00:10 inches and today I'm going to take you through a detailed review of the screen, plus the

00:14 screen ahead of the driver, plus the heads-up display as well. If you want to see some of

00:18 our other infotainment reviews, you can click up there. But in the meantime, check this

00:22 one out, explore the rest of our channel and find some really cool content. Let's get started.

00:27 Let's kick off with this screen. It's called Discover Premium. This is now on the Touareg.

00:33 It is an option, so it's part of the $8,000 option package. The standard screen's much

00:37 smaller and has the buttons integrated beneath it. They don't really look that good. It has

00:41 gesture control, as you've just seen. Using your hand, you can swipe between menus. Sometimes

00:46 works, sometimes doesn't, so who knows what's going on there. This is the main screen. You

00:51 can see it's divided into three sections. You have your navigation map on one side,

00:54 telephone, and then FM. Let's jump through navigation first. This is a really high-resolution

01:01 screen. It's a super-fast processor as well, so you can zoom in and out very easily. And

01:05 then I love the fact that you have an auto-zoom mode here as well. What that means is that

01:10 as you approach intersections or you're on a highway, it's going to zoom in and out,

01:14 respectively, so that you don't constantly have to keep fiddling with it if you don't

01:18 necessarily need to see the streets that are coming ahead. And then check this feature

01:22 out, rocket mode. No idea what that's for, but it has rocket mode. What about entering

01:28 a destination? So you'll notice there as your finger gets close to the screen, it's got

01:32 a proximity sensor on it, so right now it's empty. As the finger approaches, it brings

01:36 up extra context menus that allows you to go to a new destination. So let's just try

01:41 Melbourne Airport. We'll see how quickly that finds it. That's actually going really fast.

01:47 There we go, we've got the airport there. That's really quick, and you can see in the

01:51 background it's processing and giving you more options as it goes as well. So, navigation,

01:56 big tick there. What about phone connectivity? Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is standard,

02:00 but both of them require a cable. They're not a wireless system. I'll show you what

02:04 that looks like. Despite the fact you have a 15-inch screen, that's all you get for CarPlay.

02:09 I would have thought they would take up that entire screen and really just give it a detailed,

02:14 sophisticated look, so it is a bit disappointing that it is shoeboxed into that little slot

02:18 just there. Over on the radio menu, you would expect to find AM/FM, DAB+ online streaming.

02:25 Unfortunately, you're only getting AM and FM radio. There's no DAB+ digital radio, which

02:29 seems entirely bizarre when this car that we're sitting in has every single option pack

02:33 available, and you still don't get it. You do get a voice recognition system, though,

02:37 so a push of this button allows you to call contacts, enter navigation addresses, and

02:41 it works really well. You can also use that button to interact with your CarPlay or smartphone

02:46 mirroring system, which is far more accurate and will get the information across through

02:49 the cloud. Now, when you do disconnect your phone from CarPlay, it will then connect over

02:54 Bluetooth. Using Bluetooth, you're able to stream music, make telephone calls, so I'll

02:59 show you what the phone menu looks like. Here you can add favourites, you can see your recent

03:03 calls, contacts, and also manually dial numbers. One more push of this button takes you to

03:07 the second home screen. This gives you a bit more detail. You've got a clock up there.

03:12 You can switch between two different styles. Vehicle status, so if the car has any errors,

03:15 it will tell you what's going on. It'll tell you what state the tyres are in, and finally,

03:19 oil level. Positioning, so I often say this, you're probably never ever going to need to

03:24 use this, but if you are involved in an accident or you're first to arrive on an accident scene,

03:28 it's very, very relevant that you know where to find your global position. You'll be able

03:32 to give this to authorities so they can come and find you, and then here it also tells

03:36 you how many satellites you're currently connected to. Let's have a closer look at the other

03:39 menus you have along the top here. So, your media menu allows you to stream over Bluetooth

03:44 audio, the in-built SD card slots, or the internal jukebox, which is internal drive

03:49 storage, and if we jump over to car, if you do any off-roading, the off-road menu will

03:53 tell you your inclination, the tilt angle that you're on, and what the all-wheel drive

03:57 system's doing. You can change the different modes here, so when you are in off-road mode,

04:01 you're presented with more information, and that's going to be handy if you ever go to

04:05 the bush or you're going to a favourite camping site. All of that information is contained

04:09 within this screen. You can then deep dive further into the available menus for the car

04:13 with convenience consumers, so what is consuming energy inside the car, the driving data, so

04:18 how much fuel you've been consuming over the long term, short term, you can reset that

04:22 as you go, and finally, the vehicle status, so any errors that appear here, you'll be

04:26 able to find them, such as tyre pressure, oil pressure, the whole works is going to

04:30 appear on that centre screen there. The other fascinating thing is the animations they've

04:34 been able to integrate here, so with the seat heaters, they come up nicely there, you can

04:38 switch those on and off, and then when it comes time to adjusting your climate, check

04:42 this out. So it gives you an overlay of the car, it allows you to set climate through

04:47 the different zones, including an eco mode where it only heats part of the cabin that

04:50 you're in, so because I'm the only one in the car at the moment, you can see it's only

04:53 heating the driver's cabin, and if you then press this, it shows you what's happening

04:57 in the rear of the car. You've got four zones of climate, so you can change those as you

05:01 please in the Touareg, and this screen allows you to visualise everything as you go. Heated

05:05 steering wheel button is here as well, with three different heat settings. The last thing

05:09 I want to show you here are the cameras. The car is loaded with cameras, and normally we

05:12 complain when it comes to 360 cameras that they don't present a high enough resolution

05:17 screen. Well, different story with the Touareg. Have a look at that, you can see very clearly

05:21 there, and then I love this, press 3D, and then it allows you to skip around the car

05:27 and find different views, and it literally looks like there's a little drone above the

05:32 car controlling everything. Then you can manually come in and move things around yourself if

05:36 you want, and then you also have the Park Assist Plus, which allows you to go in perpendicular,

05:41 parallel, in and out of parks. It has you fully covered if you're not overly confident

05:46 with parking. The last thing I want to show you here as well is this. You can configure

05:50 the car to back up to a trailer properly, so that you're not going to ding the car as

05:55 you're reversing. Then you also have a super wide-angle camera if you're reversing out

05:59 of a spot where you can't see cars coming either way. Moving on from the 15-inch screen

06:04 to the 12.3-inch screen ahead of the driver, this is another pretty impressive flex as

06:09 well because it is incredibly high resolution and it seems quicker than the screens they

06:13 use in Audis. I'll quickly walk you through what this is able to do and how to operate

06:17 it. So right now we have it in map mode with the dials on either side, tachometer on the

06:22 left, speedometer to the right. One push of a button changes that into a full map screen.

06:27 Look how quickly that transitions. You can see the speed in that processor, there's really

06:31 no lag there at all. Then using this button on the steering wheel we can switch between

06:35 different displays, so I can have audio on the screen and the station that we're listening

06:39 to, telephone and anyone that I need to call, vehicle status, so this is important if the

06:44 car has any problems, this is where they're going to appear. You can see we've got a door

06:47 open there, so it's telling us on the screen. And again in any of these menus you can switch

06:51 between small and big screen. Head-up display, you can switch it on and off. Off-road menu,

06:57 if you are going off-road you can get the same display that you have here with the inclination

07:01 and the angles that you're on. Driving data, so again trip computer data is all stored

07:05 in here and then you can move between the different screens that are available to you.

07:09 You can configure all the assist systems on the go, so you can switch those on and off

07:13 as required. Come through here if you don't want the side assist on, you just give that

07:16 one click and then it switches off. And finally we're back to the map menu. What you'll find

07:20 here is that this map menu is extremely handy if you don't really know where you're going.

07:24 It'll zoom in close enough so you can see the streets that are coming up and if you

07:27 are looking for anything in particular you can zoom in a little further just using the

07:31 steering wheel controls. And finally, ahead of the driver we have the heads-up display.

07:35 Shows you the radar and how far you are compared to other cars. We've got a speedometer there

07:39 as well and if you have any navigation data that's going to appear ahead of the driver

07:43 too. And again, just on and off here, it's all very straightforward. Thank you for watching.

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