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Old 01-26-2007, 03:27 PM
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of the AC, doesn't seem that tough to me (on my 3rd Audi now). He doesn't like the lawyer screen any better than we do. All in all a positive review.<ul><li><a href="http://cars.about.com/od/audi/fr/ag_07_audi_rs4.htm">http://cars.about.com/od/audi/fr/ag_07_audi_rs4.htm</a</li></ul>
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"Dials simply work better" LOL. He must like the cheapness of American cars.
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And the option of having them fall off in your hand.
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everybody seems to be going back to dials, on radio too, so not really american cheapness
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you get whatever the climate control system darn well wants to give you. With digital controls, you just think you get what you dialed in, but in reality, you get whatever the climate control system darn well wants to give you.
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neither are particularly accurate, and I think you said it well.

I do think the editor's criticism was more along the looks of the now dated push buttons vs the dials which are coming back into style again.

One advantage to dials is that you can simply turn them the desired amount. The buttons need to be pushed rapidly/constantly or held down. I'll take a dial, thank you.
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Default Dials would be nice as far as the climate control. Audi has incorporated them into the Q7 quite well

I am not sure why they decided not to do it in the B7 series.
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Default as far as I know the RNS-E is one of the if not the best oem navi/stereo system out there. The only

thing missing is ipod integration, or better yet if it could read file types other than MP3. I wish it wasn't such a pain to convert files into mp3.
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Dials provide superior feedback and cost more, not less.
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Default Re: And the option of having them fall off in your hand.

The article also says the interior color is only available in black. I thought it was available in silver too.

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