• egrets@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    22 days ago

    I kind of love it, mostly because it’s totally ridiculous in a unique way. The steering wheel is unironically quite cool, though I suspect I use the spokes more than I realize.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    22 days ago

    The Lagonda combined striking styling with a premium leather interior and (for the day), advanced instrumentation. …

    Throughout the history of the marque, the hand-built Lagonda was amongst the most expensive luxury saloons in the world. The only other production cars to approach its price were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur and the Bentley Mulsanne.

    The Lagonda was the first production car to use a digital instrument panel.[7] The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car. The Series 3 used cathode-ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model’s light-emitting diode (LED) display.

    It was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the 50 ugliest cars of the last 50 years[8] and Time magazine included it in its “50 Worst Cars of All Time”, describing it as a mechanical “catastrophe” with electronics that would be impressive if they ever worked.[9]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Lagonda

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    22 days ago

    That piece of yellow beige trim between the door and the dash sticks out like a sore thumb.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    21 days ago

    Looks cool but is shit. These microswitches are equally shitty in a car like touchscreens. Just a tiny bit less horrible. I WANT HAPTIC CONTROLS. period. Buttons i can feel without taking my eyes off the environment.

    This coming from a tech-loving super-nerd. But not in the car where safety should rule

  • zombieshotgun@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    21 days ago

    This is really interesting to see. The new Jaguar concept seems like it took cues from this kind of geometric design (for better or worse).