The trick is in writing complicated software that directs the hardware to instantly handle the needs of different databases, console switches, networks or security.

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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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Cadillac is also stepping forward with a dead-cool, iPhone-like capacitive-touch cockpit based around a large screen in the central console, situated above a set of artfully designed pressure switches for audio and climate that restate graphically the Cadillac chevron.

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To be replaced by an all-new model next spring as an early 2014 entry, the current-generation Impala has the distinction of being the last six-passenger car sold in the U.S. Pickup trucks and a few SUVs still come with front benches, but sedans and coupes have long abandoned them in favor of front buckets, which afford a center console between the seats to house the shift lever, switches and storage.

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