A very good inside should additionally match the core of the automobile, be it a automobile that’s extra sloping for the driving expertise, or a automobile the place you’re extra related to your surroundings by connectivity capabilities – a automobile designed for lengthy distances.

And a superb inside ought to use the suitable supplies. Top quality materials could make an enormous distinction in each bodily and perceived worth, so it is necessary that every one the factors of contact are near the motive force and the passenger of the very best doable high quality.

Lovely inside design has at all times been a nuclear pillar of Audi’s Vorsprung Durch Technik -Eetos. What Audi’s from the previous had been milestones on this regard?

I feel it is very laborious to say as a result of there have been so many. Proper now, I feel the newest era Audi TT has an unbelievable inside. It has unbelievable particulars. The digital air openings with the on -screen indication are excellent from a expertise and a design viewpoint.

Wanting again by way of historical past, the Audi 100 had a really good dashboard. The design of the casing is one thing we nonetheless see in our automobiles at the moment. The dashboard was additionally completed in picket materials, which in these days was a singular distinctive to a automobile like this.

And I have to say that the R8, it doesn’t matter what era, has this robust, nearly monoposto (single-seat), structure the place the steering wheel is the focus to create this sporty race automobile feel-it is incredible.

The Audi Q6 E-Tron and A6 E-Tron share the identical overarching inside design ethos. What was the imaginative and prescient earlier than the pen even touched the paper?

The preliminary imaginative and prescient once we began the inside design for the Q6 e-tron was to have a powerful design theme that may be very, very clear. One that mixes and seamlessly all of the digital components in a means that doesn’t lead the motive force in any respect. We additionally had a powerful imaginative and prescient of making a sort of 360-degree casing structure that mixes the dashboard with the door.

Each the Q6 e-tron and A6 e-tron have a very new inside philosophy that channels Audi’s Vorsprung Durch Technik Spirit. What are the highlights?