LCDs with everything
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I mooted this a while ago and the 'flood' has begun.
The new Fiat 500 Cult has an all LCD display...
![](http://www.completecar.ie/img/blog/Fiat/Fiat_500_-_-14.jpg)
... as does the new Audi TT
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Compared to traditional 'analogue' instruments I suspect these LCD displays are very inexpensive to manufacture.
The new Fiat 500 Cult has an all LCD display...
![](http://www.completecar.ie/img/blog/Fiat/Fiat_500_-_-14.jpg)
... as does the new Audi TT
![](http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Audi_Virtual_Cockpit.jpg)
![](https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2014/01/audi-ces-dash-1.jpg)
Compared to traditional 'analogue' instruments I suspect these LCD displays are very inexpensive to manufacture.
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Also highly flexible - you can display whatever you want without a total redesign of anything but the driving software.
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They're both the new TT; the second-from-top image in the first post is the Nvidia pre-production TT screen and the second image is the actual display, albeit with the enhanced navigation view.
![](http://www.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/Audi-TT-Quattro-2014-Genf-Autosalon-LIVE-11.jpg)
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However when the stealer diagnoses that you need a new one I bet the price will make your eyes water. Then you have to get the new one programmed in (on top of getting it physically fitted..........)
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No - you just disconnect it and reconnect the new one - the panel isn't where the intelligence sits. This is just like replacing one computer screen for another one.
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Wonder if this will spawn a whole new industry of dealers / after market people selling you upgrades to latest "look" or colour schemes ?
Not sure what the legal position is on customising something so critical and/or distracting.
Not sure what the legal position is on customising something so critical and/or distracting.
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Not necessarily. With phones, they're building the display control directly into the same SOC (System on a Chip) that does the CPU, GPU, RAM and everything else, so this sort of thing could be one ready assembled unit with display and system all stuck together in a box. And that means the dealer will just have one part number for the whole thing, and charge a fortune for a new one if there's any fault (like with VSA).