Lexus CT200h is one of the best interiors ever designed. The design language was tactile: every single button or control had a different action or feel.

https://cdn-fastly.thetruthaboutcars.com/media/2022/07/20/94...

There’s a roughly 7 inch above the vents that flips up whenever the car is off, but using the screen is optional. The screen is up near the road, and it’s very safe to use. There’s a small joystick to move the cursor.

Screen up:

https://preview.redd.it/after-about-a-year-of-ownership-post...

CT also has a stateless “springy gear selector” which works the same way as a manual gear selector, but after selecting the gear it springs back, so it’s stateless. It also has tactile blocking for gears you can’t enter yet. It felt extremely satisfying.

CT got a 10/10 from me, like a small aircraft cockpit. Enough knobs and computers to be exciting, but not OTT. Made a hybrid micro hatchback feel exciting.

It still looks like a big computer screen, I'm afraid. Although, making it seamless with the dash is a step up, you're right. That tiny paddle gear shift looks horrendous, though.

I would really like to have analog features back, buttons and all that, in an EV.

The new Cayenne interior is terrible. Macan is good.

Rivian is the only excellent one.

looks like a weird mix of nothing, pointless clock, that screen on the right, that only creates discomfort. The big screen that is big only for the trend.

In tesla ( trend setter for this) big screen is functional, and it can show you multi media, when you charge you watch netflix.

this screen is not capable of multi media....

Porsche and Rivian (with a nod to Rivian) imo.

We have a different idea of "high-end" and "functional" considering how much of the interior controls are just capacitive surfaces.