It’s rare for a car company to admit it made a mistake. It’s rarer still for that admission to be made publicly by the CEO of the company.
So when the head honcho of Volkswagen, Thomas Shafer, confessed that VW’s current button-lite cabins had “frustrated” owners and had “caused a lot of damage”, we grabbed the popcorn and nodded our heads in furious agreement.
Shafer’s comments echoed what many of us had been saying for years: sometimes the simplest solutions are best. And for car interiors, that means buttons and dials.
CT Automotive plc (LON:CTA) designs, develops and manufactures automotive interior finishes and complex kinematic assemblies for the most well-known automotive brands on the planet. These critical components are managed through an intricate global network of reactive supply chains to arrive JIT (Just in Time) at their respective OEM manufacturing plants.