RE: 'This time next year' for manual AM Vantage

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Zod said:

That's the old model. The current model has Mercedes Command.

Just took a look on Aston Martins website (and had a play around with the DBS configuration tool ) and the interior shots of the new Vantage, DB11 and DBS, still looks like a Garmin sat nav plonked in a cubby hole in the dash (regardless of what's running on the screen). It's not beyond the ability of car manufacturers to utilise modern PC standards (SATA? power and data) that means that things such as touchscreens can be designed to slide in and out of a dash seeing as it looks like the aspect ratio hasn't changed since my XK (Tesla being an exception), instead of a cheap cop out design as this (and other manufacturers are even more guilty of this but at least they're not charging an arm and a leg for their cars).

[leox822]

911R is so popular, so will this little AM beast haha. Only man with a stick drives a car with a stick.

[Zod]

alpha channel said:

Zod said:

That's the old model. The current model has Mercedes Command.

Just took a look on Aston Martins website (and had a play around with the DBS configuration tool ) and the interior shots of the new Vantage, DB11 and DBS, still looks like a Garmin sat nav plonked in a cubby hole in the dash (regardless of what's running on the screen). It's not beyond the ability of car manufacturers to utilise modern PC standards (SATA? power and data) that means that things such as touchscreens can be designed to slide in and out of a dash seeing as it looks like the aspect ratio hasn't changed since my XK (Tesla being an exception), instead of a cheap cop out design as this (and other manufacturers are even more guilty of this but at least they're not charging an arm and a leg for their cars).

Have you seen current Mercedes, BMW and Audi vehicles? The screens sit on the dash in the same way. The old Garmin and Volvo SatNavs did slide away.

[alpha channel]

I was aware that Merc's interiors are frankly hideous, I wasn't aware just how bad the screen mounting was though (looks like the same unit in the Audi). While BMW's is very plopped on the dash at least it isn't quite as in your face/major afterthought as their Germanic counterparts. I've deliberately steered clear of German car brands altogether to be honest (they simply don't hold any interest for me) and modern cars in general, not least because I can't afford them but also the overall design, and of the interiors in particular, are frankly a mishmash of cheap corner cutting and piss poor/angry design, I don't think car manufactures are capable of doing a good interior any more... or at least are very few and very far between anyway.

I found this - https://uxdesign.cc/why-touchscreens-dont-work-in-... to be an interesting read (I think I found it from someone on here, turns out the site will prove to be useful for work as well, UX Design is part of the Graphics course I work with).