Report: JLR to replace all buttons and screens from future cabins with ‘vibes’

Here's TopGear.com's roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring

Jaguar Land Rover is set to remove every single button from its cabins and replace that functionality with ‘vibes’, according to insiders.

Following the reveal of the Range Rover GT – whose interaction rests within an OLED display – company bosses were keen to expand upon the minimalistic approach and simply remove any remaining buttons and even the screens from its future cars to ensure a ‘sensual, ergonomic and timeless’ aesthetic.

Reports suggest even the steering wheel could be replaced by camera-monitored gesture control.

“We’ve engaged maximum reductivity as a philosophy to evoke clear sensual themes that envelop clients in a blanket of luxurious minimalism to encourage and coax the preferred level of vibes to operate our automotive compositions,” a rollneck jumper-wearing source close to the project told TopGear.com.

“Industry-wide technology first maxims that allow tidal waves of extreme functionality to overwhelm the senses have been discarded to usher in lower measures of visual noise to encourage natural harmonic signatures focused on purity and restraint in the pursuit of opulence and peak vibes.

“The result will be our most un-car-like car interiors that conquer the last remaining frontier of accepted automotive aesthetic by reinstating lavish sumptuousness as a core foundation and allowing users to seamlessly transpose their lifestyle vibes into the car.

“No, we do not know how users will go around a corner or navigate a roundabout or set the air conditioning or turn the thing off,” the source added, “but we know they’ll feel bloody good about it. You’ll buy it regardless because it’s a Range Rover. Stop complaining and embrace the vibes."