The center stack is populated with soft-touch controls, and topped with a color touchscreen.
The driver-focused cockpit offers an asymmetrical center stack, with critical driving functions separated from passenger comfort functions.
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Plus, despite the futuristic design of the center stack, the controls are not laid out very well.
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On the inside, it gets new, more supportive seats and a modernized center stack with fewer buttons than the current car.
The interior is nearly the same as before, with a conventional, though nicely detailed, twin-scallop dash design meeting in a center stack loaded with buttons.
Ergonomics engineers eliminated the traditional center stack, developing an intuitive driver interface system that allows the HCD-14 driver to better keep his eyes on the road.
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Since the C-MAX Energi is more than just a regular hybrid, you can choose one of three different driving modes via an EV Mode button on the center stack.
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The center stack is dominated by the 8-inch touch screen, above a gloss-black panel with the rotary controller for the Sony sound system (there's a smaller LCD between the gauges in the instrument cluster).
Play music and you'll get full album art on display in the center stack, but you'll also get a smaller version right up on the driver's display behind the wheel, where it'll sit next to more important information like speed and fuel level.
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Inside, the Land Rover Range Rover Sport is all business, with legible gauges and straightforward buttons, switches and dials on the dashboard, console and steering wheel for most functions, with a large LED touchscreen on the center stack used for audio and navigation system operations.
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It's a solid idea, especially when a large number of us already use our smartphones this way, but it isn't very adventurous -- the iPhone won't coordinate extensively with the center stack, unlike smartphone-aware infotainment platforms such as GM's MyLink or Ford Sync.
The C-Max Energi has an EV mode button on the center stack that lets the driver choose between three modes: electric-only driving, normal hybrid mode (which blends electric and gasoline engine power as appropriate) or EV-later mode, which reserves the battery pack power for later use.
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It's sandwiched vertically in the center of the dash, where the traditional stack of HVAC and stereo controls would normally lie.
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