Big screens and storage are the focus for Hyundai’s future interiors.
Digitization is dominating interior design and Korean car companies have an advantage.
With the Korean electronics industry being so strong, a company such as Hyundai, can leverage a lot of primary supplier technologies.
Korea also has an abundance of quality industrial designers, who understand how to integrate screens. That plays to the advantage of Hyundai, proven by its latest interior design.
The company has revealed images of the Custo cabin, a mid-sized SUV.
Being the latest look at where Hyundai cabin architecture is trending, the Custo gives us some interesting clues of what to expect in future products.
The steering wheel is a stylized version of the current Hyundai four-spoke helm, with its pronounced flat bottom. Most of the switchgear appears familiar, but the instrumentation is different.
Hyundai has gone with neater fonts and less detail clutter in its latest electronic display.
Anchoring the cabin design is a vertically orientated 10.4-inch touchscreen. It sits in the traditional hang down section, between the front seats.
This large touchscreen enables a bigger storage space between the seats. A neat touch is the storage pouch in front of the front passenger, as an external feature to the traditional cubby hold locker.
The HVAC control buttons and dials have been replaced with digital equivalents, although Hyundai has cleverly opted to retain a hard button for the hazard lights.
BMW fans might recognize symmetrical storage bin design, between the seats, which has a shape very reminiscent of the current X-series SUVs.
