John Siracusa

Especially since they don't do anything with those corners.

They're just there so it can be a rounded rectangle.

Even BMW, which does a bunch of rectangles across its dashboard, at least they have sharp corners and look Germanic.

This does not look Italian.

But then the center console...

A bunch of rounded rectangles stacked on top of each other.

And Johnny Ives' best idea for the center console thing is he doesn't like it when there's a big door that you have to open up.

So I'm gonna make two other doors.

Guess what, Johnny?

A million people have tackled this problem before.

You can have them open from the side entirely in both directions.

There's lots of different ways to do this, but the way he chose was that you can open half of each of the sides of the rounded rectangle, but then when both sides are open, there's just this spine down the middle, which makes it so you have to shove your hand down.

You can never get it fully open.

The middle of it is always blocked by that thing.

The shifter arrangement's like, oh, we made it of glass, and it's a little thing.

I feel like Ferrari already had kind of a good idea with its gated shifter, like, play on the gated shifter, but that doesn't really matter that much, I guess.

But, like, yeah, the center console certainly doesn't look like a Ferrari, and ergonomically, it's nothing special.

The cup holders poking out there all the time, yeah, they're beautiful aluminum cup holders, but, like, they're always in your face.

There's a reason a lot of cars have them tuck away, especially sports cars.

I just like how much space you get for how much space it takes up, the way the rear controls look.