EA large digital operating landscape and fewer and fewer buttons: That is the trend when it comes to the design of infotainment and the cockpit in the car. After the driving report in March, we now take a second look at the electronics of the Opel Grandland, the 4.50 meter long compact SUV. Even the cheapest model variant of the Grandland comes with a digital cockpit with a diagonal of twelve inches. The speedometer, rev counter, engine data and information from the assistance systems are visualized here. As in the Opel Astra, the designers didn’t put much effort into it. The representation with large empty spaces seems almost naked. To put it positively: You can see at a glance what’s going on, and there aren’t any superfluous elements in the way.
The on-board monitor is connected to the cockpit display. In the smallest model variant “Enjoy” it has a diagonal of seven inches, the two better equipped variants are ten inches. If you opt for the “GS”, you will have a navigation system as standard, this is missing in the “Elegance”, but can be retrofitted via the “Business Premium Package”. The advert appears larger than it is in the photos, the illusion is created by lavishly wide side bezels. The map display for the navigation has to make do with even less space, because the left and right sides are kept free for details of the air conditioning.
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The large system tested by us is easy to use. Below the display, six physical buttons lead to the main menus, and a rotary knob in the middle of the button landscape is used to adjust the audio volume. The most important functions of the air conditioning system can also be set with several buttons and rotary controls.
The navigation comes with a European road map, shows either a two- or three-dimensional perspective and apart from that works unspectacularly. However, the quick search for addresses and points of interest is a plus point: the entry you are looking for is usually found after just a few letters. Curiously, the voice recognition for entering the navigation destination does not work. Traffic information comes into the car via the radio’s free TMC channel. Anyone who needs real-time traffic jam data must also book Opel Connect with telematics services, which not only provides better traffic jam data for 300 euros, but also an online search for points of interest. After one year, additional costs apply. Incidentally, all three Grandland systems work with Apple Carplay or Android Auto. However, there is no head-up display for the compact SUV.