Revealed: Cayenne EV curved display screen, interior, PCM, infotainment

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[Thorgal]

The dashboard design is a complete miss in my opinion. Dashboard lines are all over the place. They needed some place for vents and just stick them on top, the arch above the instrument cluster is very strange, the mix of climate buttons but then no actual buttons for seat heating and cooling is a mixed bag. Do we really need any more screens in 2025 ? Finally, the sport chrono clock is somewhere in between all this mess and barely visible. I also don't like the middle tunnel design with a large hole/space where the cup holders are. Yes you can cover it but it will quickly become a waste collector in our cars. I am really disappointed.
In comparison the Taycan dashboard - with al its flaws - is a clean layout with arguably the wrong choice for the climate panel, and especially cup holders and the hatch of the middle tunnel are a practical nightmare.

 

[Bognar67]

The dashboard design is a complete miss in my opinion. Dashboard lines are all over the place. They needed some place for vents and just stick them on top, the arch above the instrument cluster is very strange, the mix of climate buttons but then no actual buttons for seat heating and cooling is a mixed bag. Do we really need any more screens in 2025 ? Finally, the sport chrono clock is somewhere in between all this mess and barely visible. I also don't like the middle tunnel design with a large hole/space where the cup holders are. Yes you can cover it but it will quickly become a waste collector in our cars. I am really disappointed.
In comparison the Taycan dashboard - with al its flaws - is a clean layout with arguably the wrong choice for the climate panel, and especially cup holders and the hatch of the middle tunnel are a practical nightmare.

Fully agree in total and details as well. Your writing like from a designer with taste. It is a nightmare, especially with a western eye. Maybe different with an eastern eye, but it is like placing as many things as possible on and next to each other randomly.

 

[Simoniz]

The dashboard design is complete garbage IMHO.

 

[Freeewilly]

Fully agree in total and details as well. Your writing like from a designer with taste. It is a nightmare, especially with a western eye. Maybe different with an eastern eye, but it is like placing as many things as possible on and next to each other randomly.

Dude, when Porsche makes something nice, it's designed by German.
When something is ugly on Porsche, it's Asian's fault?

 

[Bognar67]

Dude, when Porsche makes something nice, it's designed by German.
When something is ugly on Porsche, it's Asian's fault?

When somebody starting anything with dude that means something.
It is absolutely not Asian’s fault it is still designed by Germans so it is German’s fault.
DUDE.

 

[Freeewilly]

When somebody starting anything with dude that means something.
It is absolutely not Asian’s fault it is still designed by Germans so it is German’s fault.
DUDE.

I started with dude to lighten up my comment on your statement, not trying to make it serious.

 

[Bognar67]

I started with dude to lighten up my comment on your statement, not trying to make it serious.

It is not a statement just guessing.
Started it with MAYBE(!). How can be a statement when it is started with maybe?
Furthermore, I did not talk about Asians. I talked about Eastern.
Please note that I am Eastern European.

 

[cometguy]

The dashboard design is a complete miss in my opinion. Dashboard lines are all over the place. They needed some place for vents and just stick them on top, the arch above the instrument cluster is very strange, the mix of climate buttons but then no actual buttons for seat heating and cooling is a mixed bag. Do we really need any more screens in 2025 ? Finally, the sport chrono clock is somewhere in between all this mess and barely visible. I also don't like the middle tunnel design with a large hole/space where the cup holders are. Yes you can cover it but it will quickly become a waste collector in our cars. I am really disappointed.
In comparison the Taycan dashboard - with al its flaws - is a clean layout with arguably the wrong choice for the climate panel, and especially cup holders and the hatch of the middle tunnel are a practical nightmare.

Interesting take. It's hard to get much worse on the storage design than in our Taycans. I like the storage design here, which is somewhat similar to that in the Macan EV. But the depth of the cupholders down in the storage area is unusual. I agree with the design lines being odd, though they don't bother me all that much. The air vents is a big problem, and it looks (from Autogefuehl's video review posted yesterday) that they're like those in the Panamera and Taycan: non-manual, and only moveable via the touchscreen. The question is why? -- especially when it was a pretty universal negative criticism of the Taycan's non-manual air vents by all reviewers (and ditto with Panamera reviewers).

Regarding the curved "flow" screen, it looks very cool, and bringing back toggle switches for climate (fan speed and temp) is a huge plus over the Taycan layout/design. But I worry how the curved screen will be for the driver, in terms of visibility/distortion caused by the curve, and I worry about robustness of that screen in terms of having breakdowns and glitches, especially long-term. I do like having the menu icons at the bottom of the big screen instead of at the side of the screen (as in the Taycan), because then you can have your hand resting at the base, and it's easier to touch a specific menu icon when the car is on bumpy roads (and many of my paved roads in my local area are bumpy).

I also notice a small piano-black flat piece at the back end of the steering wheel, and I wonder if that's some camera to monitor the driver's eyes...

 

[j.tundra]

Ugh -- Porsche is really misreading the market in my opinion; I would like to see less screens and more timeless design with physical buttons, like this:

I want to see a beautiful interior with taste and minimalism -- not the latest tech trinket the engineers enjoy (e.g. a curved screen or youtube integration etc).

For the Taycan too, it would have been much nicer to remove the bottom center screen completely and add a row of climate control buttons right under the center screen. This would also free space to have two normal cup holders and a better center storage compartment.

Actually with the great Oled driver screen I would almost argue the center screen is also too much and we could control everything right on the driver screen with steering wheel controls....

So, the new Cayenne interior is a miss in my opinion -- Porsche should strive for beauty and stand out from the pack.

The day something that looked like this was introduced into the Taycan would be the day my desire to own future gens of the Taycan disappears.

This looks ridiculous, respectfully. Save that look for actual luxury vehicles.

 

[cardriva]

Articles & Videos at sister site CayenneEVforum:

https://www.cayenneevforum.com/foru...splay-screen-interior-pcm-infotainment.29410/

I like it, I really do but why is the map so laggy??

 

[HerrCooles]

The curved screen is still better than the “free-standing iPads” used by Tesla and everyone else.

I would also like to see seat heating and ventilation controls as buttons. Why on the screen? It just causes unnecessary fingerprints.

Cayenne customers are also a completely different target group. A Taycan driver doesn't have to like the car either.

In principle, I find it weird anyway when someone turns a sports car into an SUV. No matter what brand. It still doesn't drive like a sports car. It always looks very weird. The owners are mostly mothers who can't park it. They park a few blocks away from the school so no one can see them struggling with it. You see this a lot here in Austria. LOL

The Taycan's ventilation system doesn't bother me as long as the vents blow where they're supposed to. I don't constantly adjust them either.

 

[jk981]

I’ll be honest, it’s growing on me. Top half can be separate CarPlay/android auto, bottom half can be Porsche apps for quick reference. The curve is a little weird I suppose, but it’s more seamless than two separate screen side by side.

 

[cometguy]

The curved screen is still better than the “free-standing iPads” used by Tesla and everyone else.

I would also like to see seat heating and ventilation controls as buttons. Why on the screen? It just causes unnecessary fingerprints.

Cayenne customers are also a completely different target group. A Taycan driver doesn't have to like the car either.

In principle, I find it weird anyway when someone turns a sports car into an SUV. No matter what brand. It still doesn't drive like a sports car. It always looks very weird. The owners are mostly mothers who can't park it. They park a few blocks away from the school so no one can see them struggling with it. You see this a lot here in Austria. LOL

The Taycan's ventilation system doesn't bother me as long as the vents blow where they're supposed to. I don't constantly adjust them either.

I've owned, or seriously considered buying, all of the four-door Porsches. I think that there are a fair number of Taycan owners who consider or actually buy Macan EVs (and the forthcoming Cayenne EV, as well as E-hybrids).

I agree that an "embedded into dashboard" curved screen is infinitely better than having an "iPad-glued-to-dashboard". And, yes, we're all tired of smudgy fingerprints on touchscreens and "piano-black" surfaces -- the bane of modern car interiors.

As for the non-manual vents: I tend to set the vents and not move them as the driver, but there are times when I want more air on my body vs. other times when I want the air directed away from my body. My passengers are all different (as am I when I'm the front-seat passenger): they/we all want the air pointed differently, and my passsengers are very vocal (universally) about how much they hate the Panamera/Taycan system of having to use the touchscreen instead of moving the air vents manually. Still can't figure out why the Porsche engineers ever considered such a stupid design idea.

 

[whitex]

Not related to the display, but:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-p...like-the-messy-switch-to-usb-c-all-over-again

unclear if the non-NACS port is J1772 or CCS1. Article says J1772 but journalists…

Also show how slow Porsche design process is. They’ve know about NACS for a while.

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