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Does anyone get annoyed with certain manufacturers designing gaudy looking cars (both interior and exterior)? Hyundai and Kia are really bad for this. But Honda is just as bad with their 3-4 LCD screens.
VW and some of the other German manufacturers are really talented at making great looking interior, but also keeping them classy looking.
This Honda Accord interior looks terrible, but also confusing. Two screens, plus other screens in the instrument cluster:
Same with this Civic. One screen for the radio, plus two screens for other functions. Don't even get me started on the scattered climate control buttons:
This is a beautiful VW interior. Nicely accented with normal shaped vents and buttons. No confusing LCD screens:
Today cars at are required to have back up cameras. And there are a ton of functions, Bluetooth, media, radio, vehicle management and monitoring system, warning system, tire inflation etc. most screens are multi function types. Otherwise the dash would look like the cockpit of a 747. Either way cars are starting to look like a 1980s K.I.T.T from Knight Rider. And let's face it there is just a lot of crap in cars today. My wife's car has a multi function screen. Truthfully she doesn't use 90% of the features. My trucks are simple. Radio and Bluetooth. You can keep the other bs off of it
The Accord one isn't bad, could you have the nav running while using the other screen to do other things would be brilliant. The Civic is just plain terrible, could it be any worse? The VW is just classier.
One thing I DO like is that the screens don't look like they are put on with gorilla glue and just stuck up in the center dash board. At least Honda integrates them into the dashboard
Well, one thing that is very functional is that under the windshield display in Civic. It's in the right place and well protected from sunlight.
I guess, you have to either give user 500 buttons for all the features, with maybe 2 of them used later down the road, or, place it all into a single dial like so much praised here German ingenuity did, and then hope that one can drive and keep scrolling through 500 screens trying to fathom the German way - or the freeway.
Or the stupid Lexus "mouse". Elegance and reduction of buttons in the dash lead to "go figure" what is controlled by button and what by mouse and they it's same situation as with German dial. One hand driving, eye cocked to the right onto display while hand it trying to control a non cooperative pointer on the buttons.
Does anyone get annoyed with certain manufacturers designing gaudy looking cars (both interior and exterior)? Hyundai and Kia are really bad for this. But Honda is just as bad with their 3-4 LCD screens.
VW and some of the other German manufacturers are really talented at making great looking interior, but also keeping them classy looking.
This Honda Accord interior looks terrible, but also confusing. Two screens, plus other screens in the instrument cluster:
Same with this Civic. One screen for the radio, plus two screens for other functions. Don't even get me started on the scattered climate control buttons:
This is a beautiful VW interior. Nicely accented with normal shaped vents and buttons. No confusing LCD screens:
VW interiors -particularly their dashboards - are spectacular. Better, in my opinion, than the interiors on most much more expensive cars. Audi does a decent job, BMWs are a little over-the-top, but MB dashes are horribly overdone. It seems like everyone is trying too hard to be unique at the expense of functionality. Years ago, Honda had some of the best dashboards around. The multi-level Civic dash was the first sign that they were losing their way.
The only difference between the VW and the Honda's you posted is that the VW uses barely any colors compared to Honda. Have you actually sat in any of these cars? Many times you can significantly change the brightness of the screens and sometimes even the color scheme so you can get a gunmetal gray and remove all the colors if it really bothers you. I'm not sure what to say about the vents, I'm not sure why they are required to be perfectly rectangular versus being circular or slightly more square than rectangle.
I should also mention that I am also a huge fan of German designed vehicle interiors, but I really can't find anything all that awful about the Honda's you posted.
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