However, it’s obvious that the future is going to be fully digital IPs. I can see GM saving a ton of money by developed ONE digital IP, and using it in every single car, truck, van, CUV, and SUV. They can then give each IP a unique design and layout by programming it and hiring a couple graphics artists to come up with the looks.

That means they even program it to be customizable.

Personally, I hate red as an interior light in vehicles. I love blue or very soft white. I should be able to configure my IP to have different colors and even layouts if I want. That would be a cool selling point for the vehicles: customization and personalization.

GM needs to do this NOW, NOW, NOW !!!

Stupid company run by stupid executives.
They cannot see they need an image breaker to save the company.

P.S.-Please don’t start beating the Corvette interior again.

I had the same reaction as Commodore when I read some of these comments. And someone mentioned the current Malibu’s interior, but it’s only months away from being replaced by a vastly improved (and highly praised) 2008 model. The Grand Prix was also mentioned, but it is to be replaced by the awesome G8 in 2008. Poor examples. If you’re going to critique GM’s direction, make sure you’re talking about their new products and not models that are in their last few months of production.

GM is in the process of change, big change that doesn’t happen in one or two model years. The good thing is that change is happening. These concepts (rather, hopefully sneak peeks) are just one indication of the talent that GM has working for them now.

I think it’s great that GM is throwing it out there that interiors need love too. I was simply commenting that some of those shots are pretty far fetched, and will not see the light of day for years to come.

Those center stack designs probably aren’t that far away. They don’t look very advanced. The ’08 CTS carries some similar designs. I bet we see the designs in the upcoming Colorado replacement.

Even though GM’s interiors have improved quite a bit over the past couple of years a lot of their interiors are still behind, just sit in a Pontiac Grand Prix, G6 or the current chevy Mailbu and you will see what im Talking about

Is it really that xxxxing hard to build a cool dash complex like the ones above?

jkt

And they’ll seriously need to do better with the center consoles. The problem with the Big Threes consoles is that they don’t have a fluid design, just look at a Camry and you’ll notice not alot of edges meet up with other edges. That especially goes with the central console. Do I like it? Yes, but I want to see more.

What if GM came out with a dashboard with no buttons at all, not like a touch screen but like the Ipod- with flush touch sensitive buttons built into the dashboard. That would be a smart step, things such as dials could be replaced with a shuffle function like the Ipod, and it would create a very unique form.