The 15 Best Designed Car Interiors of All Time

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The M10 Booker resembles a tank, with a conventional tank layout of an armored chassis, armored turret with main gun, and a tracked movement system. Despite the resemblance, the Army strenuously maintains that the M10 is not a tank, and refers to it as the Booker Combat Vehicle, or BCV. The Booker is named after two Army noncommissioned officers who died in battle. Robert D. Booker was a member of the 133rd Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. Booker’s Medal of Honor citation, in North Africa on April 9th, 1943, he advanced and fired on two enemy machine gun nests with his own light machine gun, despite heavy enemy fire. Booker silenced one nest before being wounded twice—the second time mortally.

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The materials used and the ambient light strips further liven things up, and the quality is up there with German alternatives as well. The materials used are closer to those of a luxury car than a family hatchback, and the design is clean and minimalistic. You’ll be pleased to see that the climate controls aren’t buried in the screen, which makes them easier to use while you’re driving. Our research clearly revealed the growing significance of vehicle interiors and the in-car experience.

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There’s no one design to rule them all, but here are 15 interiors that aspire to. Leather is a tried and trusted material, capable of transforming the look of any vehicle. We provide extraordinary levels of style and workmanship to give you the best leather interior designs. You expect nice interiors from Porsche, and the Taycan has one of the best that the brand offers.

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In our article, “The future of interior in automotive,” we examine the implications of this research, focusing on two areas. First, we review the evolution of vehicle interiors in response to five forces (exhibit). One basic shift involves the emergence of new vehicle types, including electric vehicles, which will have a massive effect on interior layouts and could enable features that were previously unimaginable, such as swivel seats. Similarly, innovations in connectivity and HMI could alter the cabin experience. For instance, automated assistants might have an improved ability to respond to the voices of all passengers.

If you go a bit mad on the options list, you can have a screen for the passenger side of the dashboard. You can also have a £4,000 Burmester sound system if you really like your tunes. American designers are having more and more influence on a worldwide basis. In addition to Mr. Mays, American Chris Bangle heads BMW's design staff in Europe. Mr. Ellwood says VW is spending $500,000 on new computers, and his designers are excited about using a virtual reality room with computer-generated pictures. Designworks recently designed the new MCI coach, which he claims is the first new coach design in the U.S. in 25 years.

"Mercedes designers in Stuttgart could not have designed the M-class," says Mr. Matano. These are some of the plushest back seats we've sat in, with soft, quilted leather, XM-emblazoned pillows, and a 3D geometric patterned roof with RGB lighting. The Spectre is here not because it's a Rolls-Royce but because the famous ultra-luxury automaker still understands luxury. The latter plays a small role in crafting a genuinely luxurious interior. Three rejuvenation moods built around the body’s natural circadian rhythm of morning, day, and evening stand to join a proprietary new Lincoln Embrace sequence that harmonizes audio, scenting, and lighting throughout the cabin. A symphonic orchestration with crisp, high-resolution animations on the displays creates an immersive digital sanctuary.

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There are cargo dividers in the boot and a removable waste bin, for example. You can have solid crystal details on the seat controls, gear selector and the iDrive control wheel, and everything else is plastered with leather and solid metal. The huge, curved panel housing the two screens looks bang up-to-date as well.

The first M10 Bookers are headed to the Army’s main crisis response division, the 82nd Airborne Division. The 82nd’s new Booker Combat Vehicles will go to 3rd Battalion, 73rd Cavalry Regiment. The battalion will likely be reflagged as the division’s traditional armor unit, 3rd Battalion, 73rd Armor—a reflection of a change in the unit’s mission from reconnaissance to infantry support. 3-73 Armor has, until recently, operated LAV-25 light armored vehicles on loan from the U.S. Marine Corps as a stopgap measure until something like the M-10 was fielded.

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The rapidly evolving ACES megatrends—automation, connectivity, electrification, and shared services—will change the configuration of cars and allow vehicle occupants to enjoy new experiences during trips. Mazda won a Wards 10 Best Engines trophy earlier this year for its new CX-9 3-row CUV, and now the brand can add a 10 Best Interiors award to its trophy case. The near-luxury CX-9 does everything a 7-passenger ute should do – haul people comfortably, accommodate lots of cargo, rise to the occasion for a long road trip – with style and grace. This is the kind of upscale versatility that makes utility vehicles so popular in America.

Booker then rallied his own squad and directed their fire before dying of his wounds. Kia’s interiors have come a long way over the last decade, in terms of both quality and design. The Kia EV6 is a flagship model for the Korean firm and the cabin certainly reflects this. The standout feature here is the small, square steering wheel with Peugeot’s i-Cockpit digital driver’s display set above it. While this setup may not be ideal for everyone, if it suits you then it looks very funky indeed. You don’t have to spend a fortune to get a really cool interior, as proven by the Peugeot 208.

All materials are tested extensively, including for abrasion, colour fading, and how they perform in extreme heat, cold, or humidity. Our work is designed to take your ideas and turn them into reality, creating a space behind the wheel that you can be ultimately proud of. This includes leather, alcantara, vinyl and cloth which are available in a wide range of textures and colours. The materials we use are strictly developed for the automotive industry.

However, some of their wheels to me seemed like concept cars that never progressed, especially when viewed from the front. Another round, the M1040, is a blunt-nosed 105mm shell filled with over 2,000 tungsten spheres. The M1040 canister round is designed to incapacitate or kill half of a 10 person enemy infantry squad at ranges of 100 to 300 meters. The Army describes the effect as “like a shotgun round,” with the spheres projecting outward from the barrel of the gun in a cone-shaped arc.

In addition to the Starlight Headliner, you can now put 4,796 illuminated stars in each door. The nearly endless array of options means no two Spectres will ever be the same. The specific approach that an OEM or supplier will take depends significantly on the company’s current capabilities and competitive position as well as its aspirations for the future. To some degree, however, every company with a stake in automotive interiors will at least need to consider taking action in the areas mentioned above. Interior design is especially challenging because of everything that goes into it.

While the best interiors typically belong to cars made of luxury marques, there are a few entry-level manufacturers on this year's list, including Honda, Mazda and Subaru. Each car interior is unique in its own way, but all are judged based on aesthetics, comfort, ergonomics, use of materials, and electronics. New technology also has allowed manufacturers to integrate their California design studios into their worldwide systems, often turning them into production studios rather than just advanced concept studios.