#NAIAS: CAR WARS! CLUTTER vs. CLEAN? WHICH Interior Design Trend Do YOU Like BETTER?

I remember it like it was only yesterday. More than 10 years ago I was sitting outside of my then significant other's home ready to take her on a night time date in my Volkswagen Touareg. Her father came out to talk to me so we could bond, and when he got to the driver's side window he looked at my fully lit up interior and remarked "Hell, it's like an airplane!" The Touareg featured a button heavy interior design.

Now though, we're starting to see a schism in production vehicles. Either the interiors feature cluttered, button heavy designs or are much more simplistic spaces that make use of massive screens and touchpads.

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WHICH would YOU rather have?

Although we've been seeing simple interior concepts since the days of Chris Bangle's reign at BMW, now we're starting to see it become real thanks to the pervasive nature of TFT displays and screens inhabiting large swaths of instrument clusters and center stacks.

With gesture control right around the corner, in-car technology is about to get very interesting but we want to know what YOU prefer while behind the wheel.

To show this a bit more clearly we put together the all-new Porsche Cayenne Turbo S against the likes of the Audi Q7. Although the Q7 does make use of buttons here and there, overall, the infotainment system — MMI — is home to most of the vehicle's controls. In addition, note the usage of the TFT instrument cluster that can be configured to your liking.


**The 2015 Detroit Auto Show (NAIAS) photo galleries are sponsored by Lexus.


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