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Eleven lists answer one question each about the cars on sale now: which have physical climate controls (all cars, electric cars, hybrids, SUVs, small cars and cars under £35,000), which have a volume knob, which put the climate controls on the touchscreen and which have no indicator stalks. Each list has its own address and shows the photograph behind every answer.
Physical controls: 125 cars on sale now from 37 makers, by how climate, volume and indicators are operated, each checked against a photograph. 48 have fully physical climate controls. The page also lists 20 cars that have no row yet, and why. Find a car filters the same cars by controls, body, power, size and price. Button counts for 57 cars, each naming the photograph and version counted. 101 cars added, most of them current best-sellers, with 178 photographs. The archive's records can be downloaded as CSV files.
The archive is now a library with four ways in: Cars, Photos, Elements and Lineages. Each of the 916 photographs is tagged with the interface elements it shows, from 26 elements in three groups: instruments, displays and controls.
116 manufacturer press photographs: Volkswagen 40, BMW 38, Audi 19, Volvo 14 and Ford 5. 109 Wikimedia Commons photographs for 29 makers, 19 of them for Mercedes-Benz; 38 earlier photographs withdrawn. 380 of the 1,046 generations now have a photograph.
Two generations added: the Austin Allegro and the Mini Hatch (R50/R53). 13 dashboard close-ups for eight cars, among them the Bentley 3 Litre, the 1946 Dodge Custom and the first Range Rover. Operating systems recorded for the Lexus Remote Touch touchpad and MBUX (2nd generation), with sources.
17 close-ups cut from wide photographs already in the archive, for 16 cars. 14 dashboard close-ups for cars from Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dacia, Hyundai, Lada, Mazda, Polestar and Škoda.
First photographs from Flickr under open licences: the Lexus LS 430 (XF30) cluster, a Ford F-150 (13th generation) cockpit and the BMW 7 Series (F01) centre stack. Operating systems recorded for seven infotainment versions from Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, with sources.
18 dashboard close-ups for 13 generations, 2 of them Documented and 11 In progress.
350 dashboard photographs from Wikimedia Commons for 243 generations from 38 makers, bringing the archive to 664 photographs.
First version of the archive: 1,044 car generations from 47 makers, 48 of them Documented and 50 In progress. 314 photographs, 11 systems and 7 eras.