Jaguar and Land Rover have spent a tonne of money investing in software, technology and infotainment systems. One of the infotainment units you will find on a number of new Jaguar models is InControl Touch Pro. Paul Maric reviews both the infotainment system, along with the Jaguar Remote application to give you an idea of how they work!
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Today I'm going to take you through a really detailed look at Jaguar
00:04 InControl Touch Pro. That's the infotainment system you'll find in cars like the F-Pace,
00:08 previous generations of the XC and other Jaguar models. It is a fully featured system, we'll
00:13 go through each of the menus and then I'll also take you through Jaguar Remote and also
00:17 the screen in front of the driver that gives you additional displays and also trip computer
00:21 functions.
00:23 Let's kick things off over here. It's a 10-inch screen, it's a touchscreen as well, all of
00:27 your interaction is done on the touchscreen, there's no centre iDrive style dials.
00:32 Let's go through the navigation menu and this is where it gets a little bit confusing here.
00:37 So you have navigation like any other car, that works fairly well. Where it doesn't work
00:41 well is on cold starts, so when you first turn the car on, after you directly hop into
00:45 it, you can't really put any addresses in because it takes a while to boot up, so that's
00:49 a little bit frustrating and sometimes a bit laggy when it wants to be, but then other
00:53 times like right now it's fine, it's all working nice and quickly, so a little bit confusing.
00:58 Traffic overlays, yes it has traffic overlays, except you have to be paired to your phone
01:02 through Wi-Fi, which is what I've done now, or alternatively in the centre console here,
01:07 get another SIM card. So the car already has a SIM card for the remote services, but you
01:12 then need to buy your own data SIM card to get things like traffic and to use the embedded
01:16 app, so it's a little bit confusing that you have to have two data SIMs on the go, but
01:20 from there it's very straightforward to put addresses in and you can go through looking
01:25 for points of interest, you can put your home address in. So it is fully functional, it
01:29 is just a little bit clumsy in terms of the way that it works. Embedded into the system
01:32 as well is Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. We don't have an Android phone, but I do have
01:36 an Apple phone, so I'll show you what that looks like. It's a widescreen setup, works
01:40 pretty well, it's just not super high resolution, which is weird, I would have expected some
01:43 of this stuff to be a little bit sharper, but outside of that it's just your standard
01:47 Apple CarPlay integration and all works really easily. To get back to the Jaguar menu, you
01:52 just press Jaguar, it takes you back to the native in-built system. In the media menu,
01:56 that's where you're going to find all the connectivity options for the radio. The car
01:59 doesn't come standard with DAB+ digital radio, you have to option that on most Jaguars, which
02:04 is kind of strange, but it does come with FM, AM and then DAB+. When you do option it,
02:09 you access it through here. The stations are easy to find and the good thing is they're
02:13 easy to set as favourites as well. So as you scroll through here, if you want a favourite,
02:17 you just hit that and then it puts it into your favourites list. So it's very easy to
02:20 navigate there, find your favourites and then also call them up on your heads-up display
02:24 as well. Swipe across here and you get access to the rest of the menus. So EcoData is simply
02:28 the economy impact you've had on your previous driving, with being a little bit naughty,
02:33 having a lizard to the exhaust and stuff like that, so just pretend these numbers are better
02:37 than they are, but they're all above 15 litres per 100 kilometres. You then also have access
02:42 to a web browser built into the screen. It's not the best thing in the world, it's a little
02:47 bit slow and can be cumbersome at times. Let's try visiting the best car website in the world.
02:56 See how long that takes to load. Okay, there it is there. We'll try scrolling now as well.
03:04 You can see it's a bit laggy and kind of displays weirdly as well. It's adopted half a mobile
03:10 format and half a desktop format, so not a huge fan of that. I don't know why they bother
03:15 integrating web browsers when they don't actually look that good. This I find fascinating. There's
03:20 a flight tracker randomly built into this, so let's give this a shot. We'll see what
03:25 this looks like. So we'll go here and go by routes from, let's just go Melbourne, M-E-L.
03:34 That's looking for Melbourne now, to Sydney, S-Y-D. Finding airport. Okay, so let's find
03:43 the flights for today. Okay, there it is there. See this flight arrived late. There you go,
03:49 some fascinating information. And then weather of course, which is very handy to know what
03:54 the weather's going to be like where you're going or even where you are right now. So
03:57 you can see here that it is, as the screen crashes a little bit. Okay, that's not great.
04:02 So you can see stuff like this, clearly they've integrated all of these things, but then it
04:06 randomly crashes every now and then, which kind of doesn't fit you with confidence in
04:10 the way that it works. You can option ambient lighting. So this car comes with the LED configurable
04:16 lighting and in here is where you change all the colours, the brightness and when it comes
04:20 on and off. But Dynamic Eye is specific to SVR cars and you can see when it is in dynamic
04:26 mode, if I flick that across, you can configure exactly what the car's doing in terms of the
04:31 suspension, the engine, the exhaust note. They've also got a lap timer, you have a G
04:37 meter built in and then a throttle position sensor as well. So as you press the throttle
04:41 harder, that goes up and down. That's handy information if you ever do take the car to
04:45 a racetrack. And finally, you have the ASI suite. This is for off-road driving. You're
04:50 not going to be doing a whole lot of off-road driving in this car as the screen crashes
04:54 again. Okay, excellent. So the screen has now crashed. Hello?
05:01 Oh, no, screen's back. I hope. Okay, yay, the screen's back. Okay, so I just disconnected
05:18 the phone and it's now kind of working a little bit better. So I don't know, maybe there's
05:23 some compatibility issue there with Apple CarPlay and the way that it talks to the screen.
05:27 Anyway, where I was before it crashed was the off-roading screen. If you do decide to
05:31 do some off-roading in this car, even though you won't, this is where you're going to find
05:34 information about the surface you're driving on with some handy camera angles here to show
05:39 you what's going on around the car. And then finally, you'll also find the low friction
05:43 launch, which is just a feature that gives you a little bit of extra slip as the car
05:47 takes off, but then won't overcome the wheels with torque, which will cause it to spin and
05:51 do silly stuff. So I'm going to show you the 360 camera, but I have to start the car first
05:55 to show you what it looks like. So once you press this button, it brings up the 360 camera.
06:00 And then when you select reverse, it will adjust the views automatically to suit what
06:04 you're going near. And then you'll see the parking sensors pop up on the side there as
06:08 well. But there is a really cool function here I want to show you. It is the trailer
06:11 reversing assistant. So you get yourself set up with a trailer. Let's just say it's got
06:16 two axles and it is 250 millimetres wide, 40 millimetres across there. And then what
06:27 it says is make sure the car is aligned with the trailer, because what it's now going to
06:30 ask you to do is put a target on the trailer. And what this does is allows the car to recognise
06:35 where the trailer is so that when you do reverse with it on, it will automatically reverse
06:40 the trailer into the parking spot for you and you won't have to do anything. Finally,
06:44 the system comes with voice recognition. This actually works quite well. So when I press
06:48 this button, it comes up with the voice menu and then it allows me to pick what I want
06:53 to do. I can enter full navigation addresses, ask it to call people. It's quite intuitive
06:58 and it understands a lot of voices and a lot of weird phone names as well. Let's talk about
07:03 the Jaguar remote application. This is one of the few applications for these cars that
07:07 works quite well. So when you open it up, it presents you with information about the
07:11 car so you can see how much fuel is in there, the weather at the location where the car
07:15 is, the range, the odometer and the status of the car. So whether the doors are open,
07:20 windows are closed, you can remotely lock and unlock the car from here as well. And
07:24 then you have a map that shows you where the car is and directions to your car. So if you're
07:27 at a music festival or something, you can find your way back to the car if it's in some
07:32 weird car park or some big field. On this screen here, you can remotely start the car.
07:36 So if you do want to get the climate going, you can push this button, it'll send a command
07:40 to the car and switch it on. But be careful, don't remotely start your car if it's in a
07:43 garage because this has a petrol engine. It is going to make toxic fumes and it's not
07:49 good for your lungs. Next up, you have trip history. I love this function because it shows
07:53 you where you've been, how much fuel you've used in your last journeys, your maximum speed,
07:58 your average speed and the efficiency. Don't look at that bit. We've used quite a lot of
08:04 fuel because I love the exhaust sound. Next up is details about the car such as your VIN
08:10 number, registration number, the ability to call Jaguar assistance. And in addition to
08:15 that, if the car does get stolen and the alarm gets triggered, they can call you as well,
08:19 track the car remotely and switch it off remotely. So this is a fully featured app and you can
08:23 get it with most Jaguars, which is awesome. Finally, let's have a look at the screen in
08:27 front of the driver. It's a little over 12 inches in size, all LCD. You don't have any
08:32 more analog gauges. It moves fairly quickly as you're driving. So the rev counter goes
08:35 up fast. In the older car, the XJ, it was a little bit laggy, so it wouldn't keep up
08:40 with everything that was going on. You can fully configure everything on there. I'll
08:44 show you what the screen looks like when you change into dynamic mode. You can see how
08:47 it goes all red as soon as that happens. And then you can completely take over the screen
08:52 and change where the elements of it sit. So at the moment we have the map in the centre
08:57 there. I can change it to show the radio station that we're listening to. So I'll jump out
09:02 of that. Or you can actually change the entire look of that panel by going down to layout
09:08 and then changing to a one dial setup, which moves everything like this, or to a full map,
09:13 which I think is pretty full on. I prefer the two dial layout. And then finally, you
09:17 also have the ability to configure the rest of the car's settings, such as security features,
09:21 how long the lights stay on outside, convenience features inside the cabin, everything including
09:27 reverse dipping for the mirrors, whether the windows all open at the same time when you
09:32 hold unlock, what action you have for the gear shift paddles. It all works really well.
09:36 The only thing I don't like is just how cheap these buttons feel as you move through them.
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