Ford was listening to performance car fans when outfitting the newest Mustang with enthusiast-focused bells and whistles. It appears they’ve also consulted smart phone users when designing the new dashboard layout. The design borrows a lot from the already very tech-friendly Mustang Mach-E, the new Mustang’s all-electric crossover cousin. It’s not as minimalistic as Tesla’s design — which manages to look a little more complex than an iPad attached to the dash — and it still emulates physical gauges even if they’re now recreated in graphics.
FordIn fact, Ford says, its digital layout was inspired by fighter jets. That’s not to say it can’t be tweaked to suit each driver. The default layout uses a copper color-scheme, but it — and the ambient interior lighting — can be adjusted across multiple hues. There’s a more minimalist layout available, paring back the vehicle details to the bare minimum so as to provide fewer distractions, plus a “Fox Body” mode that leaves the interface looking like that of the old Fox Body Mustang.
Ford hopes the newly designed layout will allow drivers to quickly (and safely) select drive modes, read navigation direction, or just change the radio station. In the process, some of the physical controls have been retired in the name of a cleaner overall dashboard. There’s still a physical volume knob, for instance, but the climate controls have been moved to the touchscreen. All in all, the Mustang’s new screen layout might seem like a shocking change for a muscle car, but it’s likely part of Ford’s effort in modernizing its lineup.
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