Best interior design of current gen cars

Best interior design of current gen cars

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flatso

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1,240 posts

128 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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In a standardised world with 2000 cc engines and speed cameras everywhere the inside atmosphere is starting to be a huge selling point for me. I am absolutely impressed by the new Peugeot interiours, the 3008 and the 508 seem to be at least one product cycle ahead of anyone else in terms of design. So, what other newish cars are out there that can impress with their style inside?


Pica-Pica

13,625 posts

83 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I go for ergonomics before style. For me, that rules out touch screens. Rotary knobs for heater controls, rather than push-button stepped increases.

fatboy b

9,492 posts

215 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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In a standardised world of 2000cc engines, I’ll stick to my 5000cc Jaguar irrespective of what the interior looks like.









Which I like btw.

pixelmix

203 posts

107 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Pica-Pica said:
I go for ergonomics before style. For me, that rules out touch screens. Rotary knobs for heater controls, rather than push-button stepped increases.
Agreed. I think cars made a few years ago were the sweet spot for usability. The Golf is a case in point - my Mk7 GTI has a touch screen, but you can scroll it using a rotary knob which pushes to select (handy when scrolling through music albums or playlists). The Mk7.5 has ditched those knobs so you have to wave your hands around or jab at the screen whilst bumping through potholes. rolleyes

The only hope is that manufacturers will learn from feedback. From memory, everyone complained about BMW's iDrive when it first came out, and it was overhauled in subsequent iterations.

Julian Thompson

2,490 posts

237 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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flatso said:
In a standardised world with 2000 cc engines and speed cameras everywhere the inside atmosphere is starting to be a huge selling point for me. I am absolutely impressed by the new Peugeot interiours, the 3008 and the 508 seem to be at least one product cycle ahead of anyone else in terms of design. So, what other newish cars are out there that can impress with their style inside?

Good grief that looks fabulous! Thanks for posting I had no idea Peugeot were making an effort again.

Is the car any good?

Julian Thompson

2,490 posts

237 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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About that I drive thing - it’s still total rubbish in my opinion. Whenever I drive anywhere in my 4 series with the nav thing it’s always a complete faff to set the destination and functions like “end route guidance” are buried sub menus deep. Pretty much it’s unusable safely without your passenger doing it for you. So much graphical style over logic. Pants

flatso

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1,240 posts

128 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I hate touch screens in cars as much as the next guy, to be fair though most manufacturers now have shortcut keys simplifying the process.
Ergonomics are vitally important, but a bit of imagination and style can make the daily grind a bit more bearable.
The ergonomics in a lot of VW’ s is a bit tainted by their insistance of mounting the infotainment screen too low.
I am talking about design and atmosphere, and yes the new Peugeot design lines are gorgeous. The ergonomics are not bad either. They look one generation ahead of MB,BMW, Lexus or most other brands.

Fermit and Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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When I saw the title I immediately thought of Peugeot. And to the above poster, CAR magazine think so. They have a long term 3008 being raved about, and this month the 508 won a group mini test, which included an A5 5 door.

It seems they've taken on board the criticism's about them being lackluster

ericmcn

1,999 posts

96 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Julian Thompson said:
Good grief that looks fabulous! Thanks for posting I had no idea Peugeot were making an effort again.

Is the car any good?
nice interior, had a look at the 5008 - just a wheezy 1.6 petrol, why dont they put a decent engine into it at least.

Genuine Barn Find

5,782 posts

214 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Volvo

Because the Flaky French interior won’t look like that in 12 months time.

Spent a fair bit of cab time in the latest gen Volvos - understated, classy and fuss free

Nickyboy

6,700 posts

233 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I had a sit in the new DS7 a few months back, the interior is similar to the Peugeot but better quality materials.


Mikebentley

6,039 posts

139 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I think Volvo don’t follow the herd

Dracoro

8,662 posts

244 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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pixelmix said:
Agreed. I think cars made a few years ago were the sweet spot for usability. The Golf is a case in point - my Mk7 GTI has a touch screen, but you can scroll it using a rotary knob which pushes to select (handy when scrolling through music albums or playlists)..
Have you figured out of it’s possible to “go back” when looking through tracks? I use the rotary knob to go to a track but have to use the touchscreen to go up a level.

Fermit and Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Nickyboy said:
I had a sit in the new DS7 a few months back, the interior is similar to the Peugeot but better quality materials.

I love the way the door flows in to the dash on that, makes it look a bit more cockpit. Even if I still hate the DS Moniker, to me it's like modern day Jaguar bringing out an E-Type range!

Prinny

1,669 posts

98 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I had a 3008 rental for a week. Wasn’t overly impressed with the interior functionality, apart from the ability to configure the dashboard as the sat-nav map, instead of dials.
The toggle switches (good) are plastic (bad), and it’s got a touchscreen too (very bad), but worst of all is the fact that the HVAC controls aren’t separate from the touchscreen, that’s a primary safety fail, and I just will not consider buying a car like that.

Also, the ‘mood lighting’ strip brightness was way too much on unlit roads at night, and turning it off was buried in the sub-sub-sub menus, took me about 100 miles to find it.

That said, I respect people trying something different - change is good - for me personally, in this instance, it’s better to look at, than to use.


pixelmix

203 posts

107 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Dracoro said:
Have you figured out of it’s possible to “go back” when looking through tracks? I use the rotary knob to go to a track but have to use the touchscreen to go up a level.
That's a valid point. I think the back button is made bearable by being in the top left corner, so you can touch it by reference to the surrounding plastic.

No doubt there is some cunning "back" shortcut I've been missing for the past 4 years.

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

189 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Fermit and Sarah said:
Nickyboy said:
I had a sit in the new DS7 a few months back, the interior is similar to the Peugeot but better quality materials.

I love the way the door flows in to the dash on that, makes it look a bit more cockpit. Even if I still hate the DS Moniker, to me it's like modern day Jaguar bringing out an E-Type range!
Older but similar style with the dash and door.


Fermit and Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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300bhp/ton said:
Fermit and Sarah said:
Nickyboy said:
I had a sit in the new DS7 a few months back, the interior is similar to the Peugeot but better quality materials.

I love the way the door flows in to the dash on that, makes it look a bit more cockpit. Even if I still hate the DS Moniker, to me it's like modern day Jaguar bringing out an E-Type range!
Older but similar style with the dash and door.

What model is that, something American?

Pizzaeatingking

493 posts

70 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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I suppose it's fairly personal but I agree with the dislike of touch screens and knobs for temp settings. For me my BMW is spot on, iDrive is very intuitive, easy to navigate menus and stuff. Writing on the top of the knob is tricky but then I'm right handed so it would be.

Used a Kia a few weeks ago, all touchscreen and awful!

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Friday 16th November 2018
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Volvo are doing pretty well these days IMO, their seats are absolutely top notch too, streets ahead of anything that the Germans are putting out.