TOPGEAR TOP 9
01 Bentley’s rotating Toblerone screen
It costs almost £5,000 to spec the ‘Bentley rotating display’, a sort of giant Toblerone in your dash with veneer on one side, three dials on another and a touchscreen set into the final face. Crewe says it has 40 moving parts and tolerances of less than 0.5mm... 70 per cent of customers spec it.
02 Aston Martin DB12 mirrors
Folding mirrors aren’t amazing. But the way the DB12’s pirouette up onto their ends when folded is just a needlessly balletic piece of practical theatre. And remember, those are probably Mercedes motors, so they might work this time next year.
03 Genesis GV60 gear selector
How do you know your silent Korean EV is ‘on’? Because the jellyfish-cum-disco ball in the centre console flips over 180° to reveal the park/reverse/drive controls. Totally needless, but if you’re going to compete with Tesla’s fart and karaoke modes, you need some imagination.
04 McLaren 720S instruments
You knew McLaren was gaining a sense of humour when it engineered the whole instrument screen in the 720S to tip over revealing a slender readout showing just speed and revs when in Track mode. Sadly the feature was binned for the revised 750S.
05Jaguar XF interior vents
Jaguar made the dashboard vents of the XF saloon rotate into view when the ignition was activated. For the second-gen XF, only on the outermost vents. Then it was facelifted, and boring ‘stationary’ vents came instead. Boo.
06 Zenvo Aurora speedo
Denmark’s 6.6-litre quad-turbo V12 hypercar is supposedly good for 280mph. But you won’t see that
