To control with your fingertips
12/07/2024
We like to get annoyed (again and again) about some developments in modern cars. The sprawling, control-sensitive LDC screens are particularly "dear to our hearts". Perhaps that's why we noticed this Citroën advertisement, which proclaimed: "The cockpit you control with your fingertips." The same could also be said of the modern car ...
With the interior of the CX in the mid-seventies, Citroën did indeed move away from the norm. But in contrast to modern car interiors, in which you have to dig through several menu levels on the screen for many vital functions, everything in the CX was arranged around the steering wheel. And if you looked at the layout for a few minutes and perhaps also memorized the positions of the individual functions, you could actually operate the car in the dark without looking. For example, if you simply wanted to drive fast on a blocked highway overtaking lane, you could simply press the outer days with your left and right index fingers and you were free to go ...
To be fair, it has to be said that the functionality of a 50-year-old CX is nowhere near what you can buy in a small car today. You can operate it with your fingertips, but probably not without looking ...
Here is all the Citroën advertising from back then, which can of course also be found in the Zwischengas picture archive :
