Toyota could add buttons back to its best-selling SUV if customers demand them.
The sixth-generation Toyota RAV4 launched with a redesigned cabin and fewer buttons.
Toyota originally designed the RAV4 with all the interior controls accessible through the display.
Like most modern cars, Toyota ditched as many buttons and switches as it could when it designed the sixth-generation RAV4. The automaker moved functions like fan speed to the screen while keeping physical controls for temperature and volume, but Toyota could add back more buttons if customers demand it.
In an interview with Australia’s Drive, Yoshinori Futonagane, the RAV4’s chief engineer, revealed that the automaker is evaluating consumer responses to the SUV’s new cabin. He also admitted that, within the automaker, “it’s an open item at the moment” whether it will “have to reinstate physical switches for some things.”
