The first Volkswagen car showrooms carplay



Car brand Volkswagen has announced its first sports car with carplay built Apple, which has begun to be seen in the showrooms of car. The Golf R is the first model that Apple will host the carplay technology inside.

But this is not the only model of Volkswagen will introduce carplay as infotainment system in their vehicles next year 2016 the rest of his line will support the drive system connected to the company on the block, as they say .

"THE NEW INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM NOT ONLY CREATES THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CARS, AS A SERVICE PLATFORM CONNECTED VEHICLE VOLKSWAGEN ALSO OFFERS ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE SUITE OF CONNECTED VEHICLE SERVICES AND FEATURES AVAILABLE IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY FROM TODAY. "

Carplay This support is part of the effort being made by Volkswagen with its Car-Net platform, which also includes support for new security features connected vehicle, Auto MirrorLink and Google Android.


After the appearance of the model carplay Golf R, the other brand vehicles also have the built-in system, being the only two models, Eos, and Touareg, which do not show support for the Apple platform. They have not given any reason for why they have made this decision.

"THE NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL PROVIDE CONSUMERS WITH ACCESS TO INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH ALMOST THE ENTIRE RANGE OF VOLKSWAGEN. THE FIRST MODELS IN 2016 WITH CARPLAY BEGIN ARRIVING IN DEALERSHIPS IN LATE JULY 2015. "

Carplay reach other vehicle brands

But Volkswagen is not only interested in carplay Apple technology, other vehicle brands as General Motors will begin to introduce the technology next year 2016 , in addition to Google Android Auto.


And it carplay be included in 40 new vehicles throughout the year 2015 , reaching more car brands next year. Gradually the vehicles will be presenting this technology or similar, the consumer can choose the one you convince or to fit the devices you use every day.

The very Tim Cook announced in March that Apple had reached an agreement with major car brands on the market, so that they work with carplay. Volkswagen will begin using the technology before the end of the year, as we have known thanks to iMore , but certainly not the last car brand to use this technology.

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