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18 October 2024A new steering wheel might be the most direct route to freshening your facelifted car’s interior. And so, in replacement of the EV6’s original oversized-looking two-spoke wheel (which always seemed needlessly bulky to us) comes a neater-looking three-spoke design with a smaller central boss. The rim is similarly dimensioned, so doesn’t impart any particular change to steering input, and its controls are mostly grouped on each lateral spoke, just as they were.
Elsewhere around the cabin, some new materials are used on the roll-top dash, door cards and seats, and some new ambient lighting features too. But, for the most part, the EV6’s control layout and cabin configuration have been left alone, and its material quality feel and prevailing standard of fit and finish are both fairly high.
This is an interior that’s usefully open and accessible in its ambience, and mostly quite spacious and practical. Taller testers bemoaned a small but notable shortage of head room in both rows, which you might not expect of a high-riding crossover, though most didn’t consider it a significant problem. According to our tape measure, our test car had 70mm less driver’s head room (940mm) than the Volkswagen Golf GTI we tested earlier this autumn, reduced still further in the second row. It’s a failing we have reported of other e-GMP-based cars, though it’s not as irksome as we found in the Hyundai Ioniq 6.
